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  • Contributors

Michel Aaij is a Dutch native who received a Ph.D. with a specialization in Old English language and literature from The University of Alabama in 2003, and now teaches in the English and Philosophy Department at Auburn University, Montgomery. He has presented and published on various subjects, most recently hagiography and is currently at work on a book-length study of the modern veneration of St. Boniface in Germany, the Netherlands, and England. Maaij1@aum.edu

Chris Anderson is a Professor of English at Oregon State University and author of a number of books, including a book of poems. A new book of poems, The Next Thing Always Belongs, is tentatively scheduled to be published next year. He is also a Catholic deacon.

Lawrence S. Cunningham is John A. O’Brien Professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of numerous books and articles in the field of Christian spirituality, most recently A Brief History of Saints (Blackwell, 2005). Lawrence.S.Cunningham.1@nd.edu

Fr. Luke Dingman has been a priest in the Orthodox Christian Church for 22 years and serves in St. Lawrence Church, Felton, California. He continues to study the art of Iconography and has made a number of pilgrimages to Russia, Greece and Israel to study the ancient art. Visit his website at www.lukedingman.com .

Thomas A. Forsthoefel is Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania. His work focuses on the religions and philosophies of India, especially Hinduism and Buddhism. He is the author of Soulsong: Seeking Holiness, Coming Home (Orbis, 2006) and Dalai Lama: Essential Writings (Orbis, 2008). tforsthoefel@mercyhurst.edu

Arthur Holder is Dean, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and John Dillenberger Professor of Christian Spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is the editor of The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality (Blackwell, 2005) and Christian Spirituality: The Classics (Routledge, 2009). He was President of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality in 2009. aholder@gtu.edu

Jeffrey Ladd is a photographer and author of the Artbook Blog 5B4 Photography and Books. In 2008 he and two partners founded Errata Editions, an independent publishing house based in New York City. [End Page 262]

Dorian Llywelyn, SJ teaches Christian spirituality at Loyola Marymount Univeristy, where he also directs the Huffington Ecumenical Institute. His current research interests include Byzantine iconography, mariology, and the theology of ethnicity. dllywelyn@lmu.edu

Quang-Tuan Luong is a full-time photographer with a broad range of work in travel, nature, adventure, and large format photography, noted for being the first to photograph each of the 58 US National Parks in large format, and for his website www.terragalleria.com , one of the most visited of all individual photographer’s websites.

Jennifer Newsome Martin is a doctoral student in systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame, with research interests in modern Russian religious thought, theological aesthetics, mystical theology, and eschatology. Her research focuses on affinities between the aesthetic, apocalyptic, and Trinitarian thought of Russian Orthodox theologian Sergei Bulgakov and Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. Jmarti16@nd.edu

John McGuckin is the Nielsen Professor of Early Christian and Byzantine History at Union Theological Seminary, New York. He has published extensively in the fields of New Testament, Early Christian, and Eastern Orthodox thought and culture. He is a priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church. jmcguckn@uts.columbia.edu

Kevin Mongrain is an Assistant Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Systematic Thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar (Crossroad, 2002). He has also published work on John Henry Newman, Valentin Tomberg, and Louis-Marie Chauvet. Mongrain.2@nd.edu

Gregory Popovitch grew up in France and in his younger years was a fervent practitioner of Street Photography. Since moving to the USA in 1993, he has mastered the antique daguerreotype process and is currently working on a series celebrating the art of the French photographer Eugene Atget. greg@gpy.com

Christopher Pramuk is Assistant Professor of Theology at Xavier University. He is the author of Hagia Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas...

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