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Paolo G. Carozza is professor of law and director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School. He is also a former member, and past president, of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. His scholarly expertise is in comparative law, international law, and human rights, and his books and articles in these areas have been published in Europe and Latin American in addition to the United States. His current research projects include a study of the principle of human dignity in human rights adjudication and a book on the jurisprudence of the Italian Constitutional Court.
Marian Crowe is a visiting scholar at the University of Notre Dame. She earned her PhD in English at the University of Notre Dame. She has taught at Lake Michigan College, Heidelberg College, Saint Mary’s College (South Bend), and the University of Notre Dame. In 2007 she published Aiming at Heaven, Getting the Earth: The English Catholic Novel Today. Her writing has appeared in a number of scholarly and popular journals including Christianity and Literature, Renascence, Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Commonweal, America, Crisis, and New Oxford Review. She is currently working on a new book, What We Can Learn from the Atheists. [End Page 190]
Heather M. Erb is assistant professor of philosophy at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto, as well as degrees in philosophy and religious studies from the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Erb has numerous articles and book chapters in Catholic University of America collections, the New Oxford Review, and various journals. Her publications focus on the nexus of metaphysics and mysticism in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, as well as on cultural issues in Catholicism and medieval philosophy. She has taught philosophy and religious studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Catholic and secular universities, including Toronto, Fordham, Penn State, and St. Francis University.
Raymond Gawronski, SJ, is a member of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus. He is spiritual director and professor of theology at the St. John Vianney Seminary in Denver. He is the author of two books: Word and Silence: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Encounter Between East and West and A Closer Walk With Christ, as well as numerous articles on christology, spirituality, and Slavic studies.
Philip Irving Mitchell is associate professor in the department of English and director of the university honors program at Dallas Baptist University. His current area of research is Anglican and Catholic literary and cultural responses to historiography. He is also a contributor to Tolkien Studies and the Journal of Education and Christian Belief.
Pyong-Gwan Pak, SJ, teaches at the department of religious studies at Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea. He received an MA in religious studies at Columbia University, and earned a PhD in theology from Boston College. Currently his research focuses on textual mediation of Christian mysticism and also comparison of mystical thoughts between Christianity and Tibetan Buddhism. [End Page 191]
Daniel Philpott is associate professor of political science and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is on the faculty of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, where he directs the Program on Religion, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding. His research focuses on religion and global politics and reconciliation and politics. With Monica Duffy Toft and Timothy Samuel Shah he has published God’s Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics (W. W. Norton, 2011). He is also the author of the Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Cardinal Peter K. A. Turkson was born in 1948 in Ghana, studied theology at St. Anthony-on-Hudson Seminary in New York, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1975. He did graduate studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, 1976–80 and 1987–92. In 1992 he was appointed archbishop of Cape Coast by Pope John Paul II and made cardinal in 2003. He was president of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference 1997–2005, and has been chancellor of the Catholic University College...
