Believing Scholars: Ten Catholic Intellectuals

Contributors

Contributors james l. heft, s.m. James L. Heft, S.M., is University Professor of Faith and Culture and Chancellor at the University of Dayton. In 1977 he received his doctorate from the University of Toronto in Historical Theology. He served as Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Dayton from 1983 to 1989 and as Provost from 1989 to 1996, at which time he was appointed to his current position. He also devotes much of his time to the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California, of which his is the President and Founding Director. He is the author of John XXII (–) and Papal Teaching Authority (1986) and has edited Faith and the Intellectual Life (1996), A Catholic Modernity? An Essay by Charles Taylor (1999), and Beyond Violence: Religious Sources for Social Transformation (Fordham University Press, 2004). Currently, Father Heft is working on a book on Catholic higher education. His article ‘‘Mary of Nazareth, Feminism and the Tradition ,’’ co-authored with Una Cadegan, won the 1990 Catholic Press Association award for best scholarly article. He has authored over 150 articles and book chapters and serves on the editorial board of two journals. He has served on numerous boards and most recently chaired the board of directors of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. Contributors 174 avery cardinal dulles, s.j. Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., an internationally known author and lecturer, is the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University, a position he has held since 1988. Cardinal Dulles received the doctorate in sacred theology from the Gregorian University in Rome in 1960. Before coming to Fordham, he served on the faculty of Woodstock College from 1960 to 1974 and that of The Catholic University of America from 1974 to 1988. He has been a visiting professor at colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. The author of over seven hundred articles on theological topics, Cardinal Dulles has published twenty-two books, including Models of the Church (1974), Models of Revelation (1983), The Assurance of Things Hoped For: A Theology of Christian Faith (1994), The New World of Faith (2000), and Newman (2002). His book The Splendor of Faith: The Theological Vision of Pope John Paul II was revised in 2003 for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the papal election. Past president of both the Catholic Theological Society of America and the American Theological Society, Cardinal Dulles has served on the International Theological Commission and as a member of the United States Lutheran/Roman Catholic Dialogue. He is presently an advisor to the Committee on Doctrine of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. In 2001 he was created a cardinal of the Catholic Church by Pope John Paul II, the first American theologian who is not a bishop to be named to the college of cardinals. margaret o’brien steinfels Margaret O’Brien Steinfels was editor of Commonweal magazine from 1988 until the end of 2002. Leading one of the most influential journals in United States Catholicism, Margaret Steinfels has become a force in the United States Church and religious media for dialogue, inquiry, critical thought, and the honoring of tradition. She was one of two leading lay Catholics asked to address the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Dallas in June 2002 on the issue of sexual abuse. Contributors 175 With a bachelor’s degree from Loyola University, Chicago, and a master’s degree in American history from New York University, Steinfels , a Chicago native born in 1941, entered the world of books, editing , and journalism. In rapid succession, she published a book on day care in America, Who’s Minding the Children? and became editor first of the Hastings Center Report and then social editor for Basic Books. Other editorial posts followed at Christianity and Crisis, Church, and the National Pastoral Life Center. She has shown an uncommon skill for bringing together a great respect for and knowledge of Catholic intellectual tradition with a contemporary resoluteness that this tradition speak to and be affected by the urgent events of our days, from Kosovo, terrorism, and sexual abuse, to welfare and politics. She is married to Peter Steinfels. They have two grown children and one grandchild. peter steinfels After serving as senior religion correspondent of The New York Times from 1988 to 1997, Peter Steinfels continues to write its biweekly...