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J. Matthew Ashley is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame and has written on politcal theology and Latin American liberation theology. He is currently writing a book on the influence of Ignatian spirituality on three 20th-century Jesuit theologians. jashley@nd.edu

Ann W. Astell is Professor of English at Purdue University. She is the author of numerous books and articles on medieval and modern spirituality and biblical interpretation, including The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages (Cornell, 1990) and Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (Cornell, 1994). She recently edited Lay Sanctity, Medeival and Modern (Notre Dame, 2000) and completed a book-length study of Joan of Arc. She is currently a Guggenheim Fellow in Religion, in residence at the Catholic University of America. AAstell1@sla.purdue.edu

Roberta Bondi is Professor of Church History at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. She is the author of many books on Christian Spirituality, including To Pray and to Love: Conversations with the Early Church (Fortress, 1991), Memories of God: Theological Reflections on a Life (Abingdon, 1995), and, most recently, Nick the Cat: Reflections on the Stranger (Abingdon, 2001). robondi@emory.edu

Florence Caffrey Bourg's interests focus on family as “domestic church” and on virtue/moral formation. Her articles have appeared in Josephinum Journal of Theology, Horizons, INTAMS Review, and Theology and the Social Sciences (Orbis, 2001). florence_bourg@mail.msj.edu

Kevin F. Burke, S.J., is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of The Ground Beneath the Cross: The Theology of Ignacio Ellacurìa (Georgetown, 2000). kburke@wjst.edu

M. Shawn Copeland is Associate Professor of Theology at Marquette University, and (adjunct) Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies, Xavier University in Louisiana. Together with Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, she has co-edited two volumes of the international theological journal Concilium: Violence Against Women (1/1994) and Feminist Theologies in Different Contexts (1996/1). Recent publications include: “Cornel West's Improvisational Philosophy of Religion,” in Cornel West: A Critical Reader edited by George Yancey and “African American Spirituals and the African American Catholic Hymnal,” U. S. Catholic Historian (Spring 2001). shawn.copeland@marquette.edu

Joseph Cunneen, with his wife Sally, founded the international and ecumenical quarterly Cross Currents in 1950 and was its editor for 48 years. Film critic for the National Catholic Reporter, he has also written for The Nation, Esprit, Commonweal, America, Critic, The Month, Renasence, and The Way. He taught drama and comparative literature at Fordham, the College of New Rochelle, Baruch College (CUNY), and Mercy College, and served for 11 years as Senior Editor at Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Cunneen has translated plays by Gabriel Marcel and fiction by Jean Sulivan. He is now completing Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film for Continuum Books. SCunn24219@aol.com

Anita Houck is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana. She works primarily in the field of Religion and Literature, with a special interest in spirituality and laughter. ahouck@saintmarys.edu

Elizabeth Liebert, SNJM, is Professor of Spiritual Life at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and a member of the doctoral faculty in Christian Spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union. Recent publications include Changing Life Patterns: Adult Development in Spiritual Direction, expanded and reissued by Chalice Press (2000), and two co-authored works, A Retreat with the Psalms: Resources for Personal and Communal Prayer (with John Endres, Paulist, 2001) and The Spiritual Exercises Reclaimed: Liberating Possibilities for Women (with Katherine Dyckman and Mary Garvin, Paulist, 2001). eliebert@sfts.edu

Bernard McGinn is Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Paulist Press Series, “Classics of Western Spirituality” and is currently engaged in completing a five-volume history of Western Christian mysticism under the title “The Presence of God.” (Three volumes have appeared to date). His most recent publication is The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart: The Man from Whom God Hid Nothing (Crossroad-Herder, 2001). bmcginn@midway.uchicago.edu

Mark A. McIntosh is Associate...

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