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Siglind Bruhn, born in Hamburg, Germany, is a musicologist, concert pianist, and interdisciplinary scholar presently working at the University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities as a fulltime researcher in the fields of music and literature and music in interdisciplinary dialogue. She is also a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen's Center for Christianity and the Arts and, for the period 2004–9, a chercheur invité at the Sorbonne's Institut d'esthétique des arts contemporains. In 2001 she was elected an ordinary member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2007 received an honorary doctorate from Växjö University, Sweden. Bruhn has authored more than twenty book-length monographs including Messiaen's Contemplations of Covenant and Incarnation: Musical Symbols of Faith in the Two Great Piano Cycles of the 1940s and Messiaen's Interpretations of Holiness and Trinity: Echoes of Medieval Theology in the Oratorio, Organ Meditations, and Opera.

Romanus Cessario, OP, is a professor of theology at St. John's Seminary in Boston. He has published numerous articles and books on moral theology and on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. His latest book is A Short History of Thomism. [End Page 164]

Marc D. Guerra is the director of the Graduate Theology Program at Ave Maria University. He is the author of Christians as Political Animals (forthcoming ISI Books).

J. Ranilo B. Hermida is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines. At present he is an international postgraduate research scholar at Monash University in the State of Victoria, Australia, finishing his dissertation on Jurgen Habermas's theory of law and democracy vis-à-vis the Philippine constitutional institutions and processes.

Elissa McCormack is a master's student in historical theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. Her research interests focus primarily on the religious history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. McCormack is currently completing her master's thesis on Gallicanism and Jansenism in some of the early writings of Antoine Arnauld.

Robert C. Miner is associate professor of philosophy in the Honors College at Baylor University. He received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 1999 and taught at Xavier University and Boston College. He is the author of numerous articles in modern philosophy and three books: Vico, Genealogist of Modernity; Truth in the Making; and Thomas Aquinas on the Passions: A Study of 1a–2ae qq. 22–48 of the Summa Theologiae (forthcoming).

Paul J. Radzilowski is assistant professor of history at Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan, and the former head of the history section of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. His research interests include the points of contact between philosophy and historiography; the question of typology in contemporary history writing; and the intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval Poland. [End Page 165]

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