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166 Contributors Robert N. Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, is currently Elliot Professor Emeritus at tile University of California-Berkeley. His many publications include Tokugawa Religion, Beyond Belief, The Broken Covenant (for which he received the Sorokin Award from the American Sociological Association), Varieties ofCivil Religion (with Philip E. Hammond). With several colleagues, he has produced two influential, best-selling books: Habits of the Heart and The Good Society. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The piece that appears here was die inaugural address in a series sponsored by the University of St. Thomas and the William Mitchell College of Law: "Rights and Responsibilities:The Crisis in the Professions andTheir Communities." Nicholas Healy is currently working on a doctoral diesis at Oxford University on the metaphysics of Hans Urs von Baldiasar. He also serves as an editorial assistant for Communio. James L. Heft, S.M., is University Professor of Faith and Culture and Chancellor of the University of Dayton. His most recent publications include "Theology's Place in a Catholic University," "A University That Evangelizes: Ex corde ecclesiae Six Years Afterwards" (with Leo Donovan, S.J.), and "Mary of Nazareth, Feminism and die Tradition) (with Una Cadegan). This last piece won the Catholic Press award for die best scholarly article of 1 990. He is currently editing a volume on the Catholic philosophy of CharlesTaylor and finishing a book on Catholic higher education. He currently serves as vice president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities and chairs the Commission on Catholic Scholarship, a group of 26 scholars working to found a Catholic Institute for Advanced Studies in the year 2000. Roberta Maguire is Assistant Professor of English at die University ofWisconsinOshkosh , where she teaches courses in literary tiieory and Southern and AfricanAmerican literature. She is editor of Conversations with Albert Murray and is completing a study ofWalker Percy and Albert Murray. Marcia Smith Marzec is Professor and former Chair of the Department of English at the College of St. Francis. She teaches medieval English language and literature and also directs the College of St. Francis Undergraduate Conference. Besides publishing articles on medieval literature and textual studies, she has also published in film and in American literature. 167 Richard Schenk, O.P., a member of theWestern Dominican Province in the United States, studied philosophy and theology at Santa Barbara, Berkeley, and then Munich, where he received a doctorate in dogmatic theology. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Fribourg for two years, and in 1991 he founded die department for philosophy and theology at the Hanover Institute of Philosophical Research. In addition to serving as managing director of the institue, he is a Professor at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley and a member of the core doctoral faculty of the Graduate Theological Union. A member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, he has published numerous articles on questions of eschatology, die history and die systematic future of inter-Christian ecumenism, interreligious dialogue, and public-policy making in a secular world. He has also authored Die Gnade vollendeter Endlickheit. Zur transzendentaltheologischen Auslegung der thomanischen Anthropologie and prepared tile critical edition of Robert Kilwardby, Quaestiones in librum IV Sententiarum. He has edited and co-edited several collections of scholarly articles. Margaret M . Turek teaches systematic theology at die University of Dallas. She earned her B.A. , from the University of San Francisco and her M.A. , from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Her doctoral dissertation, The Fatherhood ofGod in the Theology ofHans Urs von Balthasar, under Christoph von Schönborn at the University of Fribourg, is near completion. Robert B. WELLISCH, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, is Associate Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas. He is a Victorianist with primary interests in the novel and the relation of literature and the visual arts. He received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota widi a dissertation on Walter Pater. ...

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