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  • Contributors

Regis J. Armstrong, OFM is a Professor of Historical Theology and Spirituality at The Catholic University of America. He is the Fouding Editor of Greyfriars Review: A Journal of Spirituality, and Editor of Francis of Assisi: Early Documents (New City Press, 1999–2002) and Clare of Assisi: Early Documents (New City Press, 2005).

Ann W. Astell is Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of six books, including The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 1990), Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (Cornell University Press, 1994), Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003), and Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 2006). A Board member for the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, she also serves as executive secretary of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion. aastell@nd.edu

Joshua Benson is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at the Catholic University of America. His main area of research centers on Saint Bonaventure and the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition. BENSONJ@cua.edu

Elizabeth E. Carr holds a Ph.D. in Christian Spirituality from the GTU in Berkeley, California where she wrote her dissertation on Max Jacob. She works as Catholic chaplain at Smith College where she also lectures in the Departments of Religion and Women’s Studies. In addition, she serves as Religious Advisor at Amherst College. ecarr@email.smith.edu

Paul Chaffee serves as the executive director of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio in San Francisco, CA. paul@interfaith-presidio.org

Joseph P. Chinnici, OFM is a Franciscan friar and Professor of Church History at the Franciscan School of Theology, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley California. He specializes in American Catholic religious practice. In addition to his numerous works in this field, he has written articles in Franciscan theology and spirituality as it intersects with contemporary concerns and issues. He is currently contracted with Orbis Books to publish a work on a Franciscan interpretation of the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church in the United States. jchinnici@fst.edu

David A. Clairmont is Assistant Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He specializes in the comparative study of religious ethics, particularly [End Page 259] the moral thought of Roman Catholicism and Theravada Buddhism. He is co-editor (with Don S. Browning) of American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2007) and is currently preparing a book manuscript titled Person as Classic: Moral Struggle and Comparative Religious Ethics.Clairmont.1@nd.edu

Jacques Dalarun, former director of the Medieval Department at the French School in Rome and the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, is a senior researcher at the Centre national de la Recherche scientifique. He has published several books about Robert of Arbrissel, founder of Fontevraud, Francis and Clare of Assisi, and the female religious life in Italy in late Middle Ages including, The Misadventure of Francis of Assisi (Franciscan Institute Publications, 2002). Jacques.Dalarun@irht.cnrs.fr

Ilia Delio, OSF is Professor and Chair of Spirituality Studies at Washington Theological Union. She lectures in the area of Franciscan spirituality both nationally and internationally and has written extensively in the area of Franciscan studies. Her recent books include Christ in Evolution (Orbis, 2008) and Ten Evenings with God (Ligouri Press, 2008). iliadelio@yahoo.com

Philip Endean, SJ is a member of the faculty of theology at Oxford University. He is the author of Karl Rahner and Ignatian Spirituality (Oxford University Press, 2001). Until recently, he was Editor of the journal, The Way. Philip.endean@campion.ox.ac.uk

Dominic Holtz, OP is Assistant Professor of Theology at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri, where he teaches Church History and Thomistic Studies. Prior to his current position, he earned his Ph.D. from the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame with his dissertation “Cults of the Precious Blood in the Medieval Latin West,” and was Assistant Professor of Medieval Theology at Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri). holtz@ai.edu

George Kilcourse is Professor of Theology and founding...

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