Reading Patristic Texts on Social Ethics: Issues and Challenges for the Twenty-First Century

Contributors

233 CONTRIBUTORS Pauline Allen is professor of Early Christian Studies at the Australian Catholic University, where she directs the Centre of Early Christian Studies. She is widely published in the field of early Christianity, including spirituality, Mariology , and social ethics. Reimund Bieringer is professor of New Testament at the Catholic University of Leuven. Paul’s correspondence with the Corinthians, biblical theology, and biblical hermeneutics are among his research foci. Since 2008 he has been the vice dean of the Faculty of Theology. Susan R. Holman is an independent scholar of early Christianity, early Christian social ethics and its relevance for contemporary theology. She is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and founded www.povertystudies.org, a web resource for the exchange of ideas between scholars and informed laity. Thomas Hughson, S.J., is professor of theology at Marquette University, working in the field of theological ethics. Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen is visiting professor of religious studies at Pacific Lutheran University. Her research interests include usury in late antiquity and early Christianity and spirituality among communities of women in the High Middle Ages. Johan Leemans is professor of early Church history and patrology at the Catholic University of Leuven. His research and publication topics include patristic sermons, early Christian martyrdom, and social ethics. Brian Matz is assistant professor of historical theology at Carroll College (Montana). From 2005 to 2009 he was a researcher with the Centre for Cath- 234 Contributors olic Social Thought at the Catholic University of Leuven. He has published in the field of patristic social ethics, on Gregory Nazianzen, and on the theological controversies of the ninth century. Wendy Mayer is senior research fellow with the Centre for Early Christian Studies at the Australian Catholic University. She is widely published in the field of John Chrysostom studies and is senior editor for Chrysostom’s texts for the SBL Press series, Writings from the Greco-Roman World. Helen Rhee is assistant professor of theology at Westmont College. Her research interests include early Christian eschatology and the connection between Christian eschatology and social thought both in early Christianity and in contemporary Protestant communities. Richard Schenk, O.P., is professor of both philosophy and theology at the Dominican School of Theology and Philosophy (GTU, Berkeley, California). He is also a member of the European Academy of Science and Arts. Peter Van Nuffelen is lecturer of ancient history at the University of Exeter. Graeco-Roman and late antique historiography and pagan monotheism are his most important current areas of research. Johan Verstraeten is professor of moral theology and director of the Centre for Catholic Social Thought at the Catholic University of Leuven. He has published widely in the fields of Catholic moral theology and business ethics. ...