Contributor Notes

Gary M. Atkinson was educated at the College of the Holy Cross and Duke University. He taught at the University of Southern Mississippi and William Woods University before coming to the University of St. Thomas in 1980. His interests lie primarily in the area of moral theory, particularly that of Plato and Aristotle. He is a member of the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites.

Ed Block, Ph.D. Stanford (1975), is professor of English at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he is also editor of Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature. His work in the last few years has appeared in--among other periodicals--Literature and Theology, Communio, and Image. He is currently working on a study of Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theo-Drama as a contribution to dramatic literary criticism.

Angus P. Collins has taught in Africa, Poland, and Japan, and he is now Lecturer in the Department of Continuing Education, Edinburgh University.

Sister Agnes Cunningham, S.S.C.M, S.T.D., has been a member of the Congregation of Servants of the Holy Heart of Mary since 1943. She completed her studies in theology at the Facultés Catholiques (l'Institut Catholique) Lyon, France (1963-1967). She was professor of patristic and historical theology at Mundelein Seminary (University of Saint Mary of the Lake), Mundelein, Illinois (1967-1992), and was the first woman president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. She lives at Holy Heart of Mary Novitiate, Batavia, Illinois, where she continues to study and translate documents for her Congregation.

Paul J. Griffiths is Arthur J. Schmitt Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago, having taught previously at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago. He has written several books on Indian Buddhist thought, and several more on the philosophical and theological questions raised by religious diversity. His most recent book is Problems of Religious Diversity (Oxford: Black well, 2001), and he is currently working on a book Lying: An Anatomy of Deceipt, in which Augustine's thought plays a central role.

A.G. Harmon has written several novels and has contributed essays, interviews, and fiction to various literary journals and anthologies. He received his law degree from The University of Tennessee and his doctorate in English from The Catholic University of America. He teaches at The Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America.

Peter Milward is a Jesuit priest and emeritus professor of Sophia University in Tokyo. Born in London in 1925, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1943, studied classics and English literature at Oxford 1950-1954, went to Japan in 1954, and taught English literature at Sophia University 1962-1996. The author of more than 300 books, he specializes in Shakespeare and Hopkins.

Robert W. Shaffern, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame (1992), is associate professor of history at the University of Scranton, where he teaches ancient, medieval, Byzantine, and early modern Europe. His research interests lie in the fields of medieval religious and intellectual history. He is currently working on a history of indulgences in the Middle Ages prior to the Great Schism, and is editing a fifteenth-century Middle English treatise on the indulgences available at Syon Abbey.

George Weigel holds the John M. Olin Chair in Religion and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he is a Senior Fellow. The author or editor of fourteen books, he is one of the world's leading commentators on Catholic issues. His book, Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, has been published in eight languages and is an international best-seller. Mr. Weigel's new book, The Truth of Catholicism: Ten Issues Explored, will be published by HarperCollins in November 2001.

Paul J. Wojda is assistant professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his doctorate in moral theology from the University of Notre Dame in 1993. He is currently chairman of Archbishop Harry Flynn...