Contributor Notes
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Christopher Beiting is an associate professor of history at Holy Cross College and also serves as the director of their liberal studies program. His research and writing interests include medieval history, the Inklings, bioethics, the development of the idea of limbo, and the nature of faith in contemporary culture. His published work has appeared in a number of journals, including The Thomist, Franciscan Studies, New Blackfriars Review, Augustiniana, Modern Age, and New Oxford Review.
Leo Chamberlain is a Benedictine monk and priest of Ampleforth Abbey of the English Benedictine Congregation. Ampleforth was the founding abbey of St. Louis Abbey in Missouri and now has a foundation in Zimbabwe. Father Chamberlain was born in 1940 and is of the fourth generation of his family to be educated at Ampleforth College, from which he won the major open scholarship in history to University College, Oxford in 1958. He joined the novitiate at Ampleforth Abbey in 1961, took solemn vows in 1965, and was ordained priest in 1968. At Ampleforth College, he taught history, [End Page 174] politics, and theology, was head of the history department in 1973, and was appointed headmaster in 1992. In 2004, he became Master of St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford University, a permanent private hall of the university founded by Ampleforth in 1897, with a commission to modernize its administration. Father Chamberlain was appointed parish priest of Easingwold in North Yorkshire in 2008. He has been involved in support for the Church under Communism since the ’60s and is now particularly concerned with the mission of the Church in the society and culture of our day.
John Dool is an assistant professor of systematic theology at St. Peter’s Seminary, which is affiliated with King’s University College in London, Ontario. He earned his PhD in systematic theology from the University of St. Michael’s College in Toronto.
Shane D. Drefcinski is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville. He has published articles on Aristotle’s ethical theory in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, and Apeiron.
Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, is a professor of theology at Mount Angel Seminary in Oregon and at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant’Anselmo in Rome. He has published several books on the Egyptian desert father Evagrius Ponticus and numerous other articles in patristics, particularly in relation to liturgy. His book, What Happens at Mass (Liturgy Training Publications, 2005), explains the Mass in depth for the nonprofessional theologian. A collection of poetic essays, A Monk’s Alphabet, Moments of Stillness in a Turning World (Darton Longman and Todd; New Seeds, 2006), is enjoying great popularity. This is his third article on Czeslaw Milosz (see “The Witness of Czeslaw Milosz” in First Things 147 [November 2004] and “‘Inheritor’: A Poem by Czeslaw Milosz” in Logos, A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 8 [Fall 2005]). [End Page 175]
Brennan C. Pursell, PhD, is an associate professor of history at DeSales University in eastern Pennsylvania. His recent publications include The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatine and the Coming of the Thirty Years’ War (Ashgate, 2003) and a biography of Pope Benedict XVI, Benedict of Bavaria: an Intimate Portrait of the Pope and his Homeland (Circle Press, 2008). The title of his current book project is A Christian History of the West.
Lloyd E. Sandelands teaches psychology and business administration at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on social and spiritual life in organizations. He is the author of Feeling and Form in Social Life (1998), Male and Female in Social Life (2001), Thinking about Social Life (2003), Man and Nature in God (2005), and An Anthropological Defense of God (2007). [End Page 176]
