Contributor Notes

Catherine Jack Deavel, an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, recently received her Ph.D. from Fordham University. Her research interests are in ancient philosophy and metaphysics. She has published a number of book notices in the International Philosophical Quarterly.

Alfred J. Freddoso, professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, is best known for his translations of William of Ockham, Luis de Molina, and Francisco Suárez. His most recent work consists of a series of papers on various aspects of the relationship between faith and reason.

Fr. Raymond Gawronski, S.J., teaches dogmatic and mystical theology at Marquette University, having completed his doctorate at the Gregorian University. A lifelong interest in East Asia helped him write Word and Silence: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Spiritual Encounter Between East and West (T&T Clark: 1995). He also has an S.T.L. from the Oriental Institute and is involved in Eastern Christian monasticism. His An Ignatian Retreat will be published in the coming year by Our Sunday Visitor Press.

John Haldane is currently professor of philosophy and director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at the University of St. Andrews. His next books will be An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion (Duckworth) and Faithful Reason (Routledge).

R. Mary Hayden Lemmons is an associate professor of philosophy and Catholic studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received her doctorate in 1988 from Houston's University of St. Thomas's Center for Thomistic Studies. Her research and publishing has focused on Aquinas's natural law, and she is completing a manuscript, Aquinas and the Grounding of Natural Law.

Ronald L. Martinez was educated at Swarthmore College and at the University of Santa Cruz, where he received a Ph.D. in literature in 1977. Since 1983 he has been associate professor of Italian at the University of Minnesota; beginning in the fall of 2002 he will be professor of Italian studies at Brown University. Martinez is currently collaborating with Robert M. Durling in an edition, with translation and notes, of Dante's Divine Comedy.

William F. Murphy, JR., is currently assistant professor of moral theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, Pennsylvania. He received his S.T.L. from the Dominican House of Studies and his S.T.D. from the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. His primary area of interest is in the development of an articulation of Catholic moral theology that is more conducive to the needs of what Pope John Paul II calls "the new evangelization," and his articles and reviews have appeared in a number of journals including Angelicum, Communio, Pro Ecclesia, Sapientia,and The Thomist.

José Pereira is professor emeritus of theology of Fordham University, where he taught hisory of religions. He has published books and articles on the theologies of Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. Also trained as an art historian, he has produced works on Baroque, Indian, and Islamic architecture. A lifelong student of Suárez, he has writen articles on the thought of the Doctor Eximius, and is putting them in a book titled Suárez: Between Scholasticism and Modernity.

Scott D. Seay is assistant professor of religion at Ashland University in northeast Ohio, where his teaching focuses on the history of modern Christian thought. An ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), he will soon receive his Ph.D. in religion from Vanderbilt University.

George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the John M. Olin Chair in Religion and American Democracy. Author of the international bestseller, Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, he is the author or editor of fifteen other books, including The Truth of Catholicism: Ten Controversies Explored (HarperCollins, 2001) and The Courage to Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church (Basic Books, forthcoming in 2002).

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