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William E. Carroll is the Thomas Aquinas Fellow in Science and Religion at Blackfriars Hall and a member of the faculty of theology of the University of Oxford. He is author of La Creacion y las Ciencias Naturales: Actualidad de Santo Tomas de Aquino and coauthor with Steven E. Baldner of Aquinas on Creation. His interests include the reception of Aristotelian science in mediaeval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, the development of the doctrine of creation ex nihilo, and the appropriation of mediaeval discussions of creation and the natural sciences to contemporary science.
Michael Heller is professor of the philosophical faculty of the John Paul II University in Cracow. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences in Rome, and an adjoint member of the Vatican Astronomical Observatory (Specola Vaticana). A laureate of the Templeton Prize and the founder of the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Heller’s scientific interests cover the fields of relativistic physics, especially relativistic cosmology, mathematical methods in physics, history and philosophy of science, and relations between science and theology. He is author of several books and many research papers, and also a member of many international societies. [End Page 178]
Kenneth W. Kemp teaches philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. His research interests include the relationship between science and religion. He has a strong interest in East and Central Europe and has been working for a number of years on building connections between the University of St. Thomas and Catholic institutions of higher education in Poland and Ukraine. His translations of Józef Życiński’s work includes (with Zuzanna Maslanka) God & Evolution.
Edward T. Oakes, SJ is professor of theology at University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, the Catholic seminary for the Archdiocese of Chicago. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1966 and was ordained a priest in 1979. He earned his PhD in systematic theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1987 and has taught at New York University and Regis University in Denver, Colorado. He is author of numerous works on Hans Urs von Balthasar including Pattern of Redemption: The Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, editor of German Essays on Religion, and coeditor, with David Moss, of the Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar. Among other works, Oakes has translated Balthasar’s The Theology of Karl Barth: Exposition and Interpretation, the Epilog to his fifteen-volume theological trilogy, and Josef Pieper’s The Concept of Sin. His most recent book is Infinity Dwindled to Infancy: A Catholic and Evangelical Christology.
Christopher Oleson is a member of the faculty of Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California. He received his PhD in philosophy from the Catholic University of America. He has published several articles on marriage and various bioethical issues in Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, and The Linacre Quarterly, as well as contributing an essay to the book Human Embryo Adoption: Biotechnology, Marriage, and the Right to Life. He and his wife Rachel have seven children and live in Santa Paula, California. [End Page 179]
Phillip R. Sloan is professor emeritus in the program of liberal studies and in the graduate program in history and philosophy of science at Notre Dame. His research specializes on the history and philosophy of life science from the early modern period to contemporary molecular biology. His current project is a multiyear study on the concept of life in modern biophysics and its implications for bioethical questions. He is also actively involved in the Notre Dame Initiative for Adult and Alternative Stem Cell Research, an interdisciplinary working group devoted to advancing ethically sound stem cell research. He has served as a lay advisor to the National Conference of Catholic Bishop’s Committee on Science and Human Values and on numerous other scientific committees and institutes. He was editor and contributor to Controlling Our Destinies: Historical, Philosophical, Ethical and Theological Implications of the Human Genome Project and has co-authored Creating a Physical Biology: The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology.
Ryan Urbano teaches philosophy courses at the University of San Carlos, Cebu...
