Contributors
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Dianne Bergant, CSA is Professor of Biblical Studies at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. She was a member of the editorial board of The Bible Today for more than twenty-five years, five of which she served as general editor. She is now the Old Testament book reviewer for that magazine. She was also the author of “The Word” column in American magazine 2002–2005. She is currently interested in biblical interpretation and biblical theology, particularly in the areas of integrity of creation, social justice, and feminism. dbergant@ctu.edu
M. Shawn Copeland is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology in the Department of Theology and in the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College. She writes frequently about the spirituals. shawn.copeland.1@bc.edu
Keith J. Egan is the Aquinas Professor Emeritus of Catholic Theology at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana, where he founded its Center for Spirituality. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of, among other works, Christian Spirituality: Themes from the Tradition (with Lawrence Cunningham) (Paulist Press, 1996) and editor of Carmelite Prayer: A Tradition for the Twenty-first Century (Paulist Press, 2003). kegan@saintmarys.edu
Mary Potter Engel is the author of Strangers and Sojourners: Stories from the Lowcountry (Counterpoint, 2004) and the novel, A Woman of Salt (Counterpoint, 2001). Her nonfiction works include books and essays on John Calvin, liberation theology, and feminist theology. She recently completed a spiritual autobiography, Losing the Way: Confessions of a Reluctant Mystic, of which this essay forms a part. engelmp@comcast.net
Rachel Fulton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago. She is author of From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200 (Columbia University Press, 2002), and co-editor with Bruce Holsinger of History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person (Columbia University Press, 2007). Her current research involves the cognitive and experiential making of prayer in the monastic culture of the medieval West, with special emphasis on the practices that developed from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries for prayer to the Trinity and the Virgin Mother of God. rfulton@uchicago.edu [End Page 241]
Sarah Hadley is an award winning fine art photographer who has exhibited her work nationally. She is currently working on creating a book of photographs of Venice, Italy. You can see more of her work at www.sarahhadley.com. hadleyphoto@yahoo.com
Michael Kenna has been a photographer for over three decades. In 2001, he was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in France. His photographs have been exhibited worldwide and are in numerous museum collections. Over twenty books and catalogs have been published on his work. www.michaelkenna.com
Michael E. Lee is Assistant Professor of Theology at Fordham University, where he is also affiliated with its Latin American and Latino/a Studies Institute. He is currently writing about two theological figures from El Salvador, Ignacio Ellacuría, SJ, and Archbishop Oscar Romero. fmilee@fordham.edu
Keith Levit is an artist based in Winnipeg, Canada. www.keithlevitphotography.com and www.takestockphoto.com. klevit@shaw.ca
Blake Leyerle is John Cardinal O’Hara, CSC Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Her scholarly specialization is the social and cultural history of early Christianity. Her book, Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives: John Chrysostom’s Attack on Spiritual Marriage, was published by the University of California Press in 2001. She is currently working on a book-length study of pilgrimage, tentatively entitled, Traveling Space: Theorizing Early Christian Pilgrimage, as well as a co-authored book (with W. Martin Bloomer of the Classics Department) on children in the classical and early Christian world. Blake.Leyerle.1@nd.edu
Jeffrey McCurry teaches theology at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, MN. He recently received his Ph.D. in religious studies from Duke University, where he wrote his dissertation on theological creativity in the work of the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. mccurryj@gmail.com
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