Notes on Contributors

1 60Notes on Contributors NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS James Alison is the author ofKnowing Jesus, Raising Abel: The Recovery ofthe Eschatological Imagination, and The Joy ofBeing Wrong: Original Sin through Easter Eyes. Eric Gans is professor of French Literature at UCLA, the author, among other books, ofOriginary Thinking: Elements ofGenerative Anthropology, Signs ofParadox: Irony, Resentment, and Other Mimetic Structures, and editor ofthe on-line journal Anthropoetics. Rosemary Erickson Johnsen is the author of essays on Edith Wharton, Patrick Hamilton, and Grant Richards, and is completing a book-length project on feminist historical crime fiction. Sara Osborne is a lawyer in Saratoga Springs, NY, specializing in family law. John Ranieri is chair of the Philosophy Department at Seton Hall University and the author of Eric Voegelin and the Good Society. He is currently working on relations between mimetic theory and Bernard Lonergan's understanding of bias. Bernadette Waterman Ward is professor of English at the University of Dallas, the author of essays on Matthew Arnold, on John Henry Cardinal Newman, and others. Her book, The World as Word: Philosophical Theology in the Poetry ofGerard Manley Hopkins, will appear in the Fall. Harald Wydra is the author ofnumerous articles in philosophy and political science, which he teaches at the Universität Regensberg. ...