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379 Michael Baxter teaches theology at the University of Notre Dame and lives and works at the Catholic Worker in South Bend, Indiana. He is also National Secretary of the Catholic Peace Fellowship. Anna J. Brown teaches political science and directs the social justice program at Saint Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey. Brown founded the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.–Kairos Social Justice House at the college. Most recently, she edited and contributed to the book, Witness Against Torture: A Campaign to Shut Down Guantánamo (2008). A long-time member of the Kairos community, which was cofounded by Daniel Berrigan in 1978, she has participated in numerous actions of nonviolent civil disobedience . In January of 2005, she joined the Witness Against Torture community in a seventy-mile walk to visit the detainees held in the Guantanamo and to resist the use of torture. She has also worked for peace and justice in Mexico, El Salvador, Israel, and Palestine. Patrick D. Brown holds a PhD in philosophy from Boston College, where he studied under Bernard Lonergan, SJ, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, and wrote his dissertation on Lonergan’s philosophy of history. He also holds a JD from the University of Washington. Following law school, he was law clerk to the Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court and practiced law full-time for seven years in both public and private practice. Professor Brown has published articles in various philosophical and legal journals, and has presented papers on topics relating to philosophy, law, methodology , and Catholic social thought at conferences in the United States, Canada, and Korea. He taught for three years in the Seattle University philosophy department before moving to its law school, where he has taught for the last seven years. He is currently Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches, among other courses, land use, property, ethics, law, and Catholic social thought. c o n t r i b u t o r s Marsh-Contributors.indd 379 Marsh-Contributors.indd 379 2/2/2012 2:18:47 PM 2/2/2012 2:18:47 PM 380 Contributors WilliamDesmond isprofessorofphilosophyattheInstituteofPhilosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and holds the Visiting David Cook Chair in philosophy at Villanova University. His interests are in metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of religion. He has taught in Ireland, the United States, and Belgium. He has also been visiting professor at a number of universities, including Boston University, University of Bejing, University of Denver, American University of Cairo, and Boston College. He is past president of the Hegel Society of America, the Metaphysical Society of America, and the American Catholic Philosophical Association. He is the author of many books, including the award-winning Being and the Between (1995), Ethics and the Between (2001), Hegel’s God: A Counterfeit Double? (2003), Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art (2003), Is There a Sabbath for Thought? Between Religion and Philosophy (2005), God and the Between (2008), and Being Between: Conditions of Irish Thought (2008). Martin J.De Nys received his PhD in philosophy from Loyola UniversityChicago . He has taught at several colleges and universities in the United States, and is presently associate professor at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. De Nys specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century German philosophy (especially Hegel, Marx, and transcendental phenomenology ), philosophy of religion, social and political philosophy, and metaphysics . He has published numerous articles, especially on Hegel and on the philosophy of religion, and is the author of Considering Transcendence: Elements of a Philosophical Theology (2008) and Hegel and Theology (2009). His work in social and political philosophy focuses on Marx’s critical social theory and on the resources that Marx offers for developing on the contemporary scene a social and political theory that allows one to present and justify critical and radical intentions. Robert M. Doran, SJ, has held the Emmett Doerr Chair in Catholic Systematic Theology at Marquette University since 2006, after having spent twenty-seven years at Regis College in the University of Toronto. While in Toronto, he teamed with Frederick E. Crowe, SJ, to found the Lonergan Research Institute and to launch the publication of Bernard Lonergan’s Collected Works with University of Toronto Press. He is the author of Theology and the Dialectics of History (1999) and five other books along withnumerousarticles.Hisnotionof“psychicconversion”drewLonergan’s attention and approval over thirty years ago and has supplied him with the major defining characteristic of his own...

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