Contributor Notes

Catherine Jack Deavel is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. Her research interests are in ancient philosophy and the history of philosophy.

David Paul Deavel is adjunct lecturer in theology at the University of St. Thomas and a doctoral candidate in historical theology at Fordham University. His dissertation is "Under Judgment: The Threat of Eternal Damnation in the Thought and Teaching of John Henry Newman."

Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago. A political philosopher whose task has been to show the connections between our political and our ethical convictions, Elshtain has written over four hundred essays, is a contributing editor for The New Republic, and is author of more than a dozen books, including Public Man, Private Woman:Women in Social and Political Thought; Women and War; Democracy on Trial; and, with Aziza al-Hibri and Charles Haynes, Faith Matters: Religion and Public Life in America.

John S. Grabowski is an associate professor of moral theology and associate dean of the School of Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America. He has published widely in the areas of theological anthropology, sexuality, biomedical ethics, and virtue theory. He is the author of Sex and Virtue: An Introduction to Sexual Ethics (Catholic University of America Press, Catholic Moral Thought Series, forthcoming).

Robert G. Kennedy is a professor in the departments of Catholic studies and management at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. After spending a number of years in business and management, he earned a doctorate in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame. His professional interests focus on the application of the Catholic moral and social traditions to the economic and political arenas.

Edward Krasevac, O.P., is associate professor of theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He graduated from Santa Clara University in 1971, entered the Order of Preachers the same year, and was ordained a priest in 1977. He completed his Ph.D. at the GTU in 1986, and has taught there since. His fields of interest are fundamental moral theology and Christology.

L. Lamar Nisly is associate professor of English and chair of the English and language department at Bluffton College. He has published Impossible to Say: Representing Religious Mystery in Fiction by Malamud, Percy, Ozick, and O'Connor (Greenwood Press, 2002) as well as essays in Journal for Peace and Justice Studies and Studies in American Jewish Literature.

George E. Schultze, S.J., studied industrial and labor relations at Cornell University and worked for the National Labor Relations Board. His labor union family spurred his lifelong interest in labor and community organizing and work as vocation. He continues to organize with the Hispanic immigrant population of California.

Christopher J. Thompson is currently the department chair of Catholic studies at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul. He has written several articles on subjects concerning the moral life in Catholic thought and serves on the board for the Office of Marriage and Family Life for the Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minneapolis.

Michael Torre is associate professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. in philosophical and systematic theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, specializing in the work of Aquinas. His main interest is in diverse aspects of Aquinas's natural theology. He has published various articles and edited Freedom in the ModernWorld: Jacques Maritain, Yves R. Simon, Mortimer J. Adler (1989) for the American Maritain Association.

Wendy A. Weaver is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Marquette University. She is a teaching assistant at Marquette and worked previously as the editorial assistant for Renascence, a scholarly journal published by Marquette. Her areas of interest include autobiography, poetry, and spirituality in literature.