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101 aboUT The aUThors C. ColT anDerson, Ph.D. is a theologian and church historian who has spent most of his career looking at the intersection between three areas of concern: the communication of the Gospel (evangelization), how to reform the church, and the importance of an eschatological perspective for Christian life. Anderson has focused his research on the origins of the Franciscan movement as a means to understand the important development of lay ministry in the Church. He lectures nationally on issues related to spirituality, ecclesial reform, and evangelization. He is the recipient of a 2008 Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada Book Award for history. He has served as a judge for Theological Studies, as an editorial advisor for Chicago Studies, and on the editorial board for New Theology Review. Marie Dennis is a Secular Franciscan, director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and co-president of Pax Christi International. She holds a masters degree in moral theology from Washington Theological Union and is coauthor or author of seven books, including St. Francis and the Foolishness of God. She received the 2008 Peacemaker Award from the National Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order in the United States and the 2007 Annual Award from Franciscan Mission Service. Marie is a lay woman, a mother of six and a grandmother. She is a founding member of Assisi Community in Washington D.C. MiChael f. CUsaTo, o.f.M. is Dean of the School of Franciscan Studies and Director of the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University and one of the foremost historians of medieval Franciscan history working in the field today. Having received an M.A. degree in Franciscan Studies from the Franciscan Institute (1984), he went on to earn a doctorate in medieval history at the Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne ) in 1991 under the direction of André Vauchez. Author 102 of numerous articles with a particular emphasis on the historical contextualization of Franciscan sources and the role of apocalyptic thought in Franciscan self-understanding, he is recognized both at home and abroad for his bold and innovative approaches to the reading of Franciscan texts. sTeven J. MCMiChael, o.f.M. Conv. is an associate professor in the Theology Department of the University of Saint Thomas. He has a M.A. in Franciscan Studies from the Saint Bonaventure and a doctorate degree in theology (S.T.D.) from the Gregorian University in Rome. Steven is a frequent visitor at the lectures of Center for Medieval Studies. He has written on medieval Christian, Jewish and Islamic polemical literature, especially the work of the Spanish Franciscan Alonso de Espina (d. 1464) and his Fortalitium Fidei. He is currently working on the theme of the resurrection of the dead in medieval polemical literature and on medieval Franciscan preaching on the resurrection of Jesus. DaviD bUrr, Ph.D. holds a BA from Oberlin College, a BD from Union Theological Seminary in New York, and a PhD from Duke University. He is currently a professor emeritus at Virginia Tech and is the author of eight books, one of which (The Spiritual Franciscans) won the Marraro Prize for Italian history, the Shea Prize for church history, and the Gründler Prize for medieval studies. He currently lives in Blacksburg, VA with his wife and a small pack of dogs. Jane koPas, Ph.D., taught theology and women’s studies at the University of Scranton for over twenty years. She is the author of Sacred Identity: Exploring a Theoogy of the Person (Paulist) and Seeking the Hidden God (Orbis), as well as numerous articles. Jane was a vowed Franciscan sister for many years. More recently she has been living an alternative form of religious life. ...

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