Contributor Notes
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John F. Desmond is professor of English emeritus at Whitman College. He is the author of Risen Sons: Flannery O’Connor’s Vision of History, At the Crossroads: Ethical and Religious Themes in the Writings of Walker Percy, Walker Percy’s Search for Community, and Gravity and Grace: Seamus Heaney and the Force of Light. He has published dozens of essays on Flannery O’Connor, and is a board member of the Flannery O’Connor Society. He has also published numerous essays on Walker Percy, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Seamus Heaney, Bernard Malamud, Mark Twain, and Don Delillo.
James M. Jacobs is professor of philosophy at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he has taught since 2003. He holds a BA from Harvard University and a PhD from Fordham University. His major area of research is Thomistic natural law theory, and more generally the need for a philosophical realism as a response to modern nominalism and skepticism. His work has appeared in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, the International Philosophical Quarterly, and Nova et Vetera.
Jill Kriegel is a convert to Catholicism and a current doctoral candidate in comparative studies at Florida Atlantic University. With emphases in nineteenth-century British literature and ancient Greek and early Christian philosophy, her dissertation explores Augustinian echoes in the novels of Charles Dickens. She has also published [End Page 182] in the Saint Austin Review and is the editor of the forthcoming Ignatius Critical Edition of Great Expectations.
Ross Labrie, professor emeritus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, is the author of a number of books and articles on American literature. These include The Catholic Imagination in American Literature and two books on Thomas Merton, The Art of Thomas Merton and Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination. He has served as an international advisor to the International Thomas Merton Society, is on the advisory board of the Merton Annual, and is currently president of the Thomas Merton Society of Canada.
Edward T. Oakes, SJ is currently associate 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 taught eight years in the religious studies program at New York University and six years at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. He is the author of Pattern of Redemption: The Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, the editor of German Essays on Religion (Continuum), and coeditor, with David Moss, of the Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar. Other works on Balthasar include an entry in the Oxford Companion to Christian Thought and an overview of his work for Theology Today. Among other works, he 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.
Christopher Ohan is assistant professor of history and international studies at the American University of Kuwait. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Arlington. Focusing on religious and social history, his publications include “The Revolution in the Mexican Revolt: The Role of the Catholic Church in the [End Page 183] Mexican Revolution,” in Voices of Mexico, and “From Hope to Escape: Post-Soviet Russian Memory and Identity” in History and Anthropology. His current work focuses on the history of the early Franciscan movement and, specifically, the possible contributions and connections of Sufism to Franciscan thought.
Richard Schenk, OP, completed his doctorate in systematic theology at the University of Munich in 1986 with a comparison of the theological anthropology of Thomas Aquinas with the works of Martin Heidegger and Karl Rahner. Schenk edited medieval manuscripts for five years at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich, and also edited a work on the theology of non-Christian religions by Thomas Aquinas’ best known contemporary critic, Robert Kilwardby. He has published numerous articles on eschatology, ecumenism, interreligious dialogue, and public policy making in a secular world. He has edited and coedited several collections...
