Contributor Notes

Contributor Notes

Ed Block is a professor of English at Marquette University, where he is also editor of Renascence: Essays On Values In Literature. His recent research interests include drama, theory, and the poetry of Denise Levertov. He is currently beginning a study of novelist Jon Hassler.

Gary M. Bouchard is a professor of English at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. He is the author of numerous essays on early modern poetry and of the book Colin's Campus: Cambridge University and the English Eclogue (Susquehana, 2001).

Patrick Danielson is an orthodox priest and pastor of the Orthodox Mission of St. John Cassian in St. Augustine, Florida. He is also an instructor in philosophy at the University of North Florida. The article appearing in this issue of Logos is the second in what he anticipates to be a collection of five essays on the theology of education. The first, "Restoring the Sacred House of Education," was published in Modern Age. Danielson's ongoing concern is with advancing a Christian understanding of the human person as the basis of education, and with explaining how viewing education from this perspective helps us understand the problems of education that seem so impervious to solution.

Christopher Garbowski is an associate professor at the Institute of English at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland. His special interest is narrative art and values. He has written two books: Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue Series (1996) and Recovery and Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker: The Spiritual Dimension in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien (2000), along with a short volume of essays, Spiritual Values in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings (2005). Among others, he has also contributed articles and reviews to The Journal of Religion and Film and The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.

Richard Gill earned a BA in sociology and an MA in social and political thought at Sussex University before receiving his PhD from Keele University. His recent articles have been published in Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Claves de Razón Práctica, Southwest Philosophy Review, and SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review.

Guy Mansini, OSB, is an associate professor of theology at St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Indiana. He is the author of a theological consideration of promising, Promising and the Good, available from Sapientia Press.

Basil Meeking was ordained a priest for the diocese of Christchurch in 1953 after education and seminary training in New Zealand. Currently, he does pastoral work in the archdioceses of Portland, Oregon, and Chicago. He also serves as liaison to Cardinal George with the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago and with the Community of St. John Cantius. For nearly twenty years (1969–87) he was an official and later Under-Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity in Rome, and in 1987 he became bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand, where he served until he retired in 1996.

Elizabeth R. Schiltz is a professor of law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Her articles published in legal journals include a number of articles on the regulation of consumer credit, as well as Motherhood and the Mission: What Catholic Law Schools Could Learn from Harvard about Women and West, MacIntyre and Wojtyła: Pope John Paul II's Contribution to the Development of a Dependency-Based Theory of Justice. Her essays on prenatal testing and stem cell research have appeared in America, Business Week, and The Human Life Review.