Contributors
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Gillian T. W. Ahlgren is Professor of Theology and History of Christianity at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio and author of Teresa of Avila and the Politics of Sanctity (Cornell University Press, 1998), Entering Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle: A Reader's Companion (Paulist Press, 2005), and The Inquisition of Francisca: A Sixteenth-Century Visionary Trial (University of Chicago Press, 2005). She lectures widely on the Christian mystical tradition and does pilgrimage and retreat work.
Andreas Andreopoulos is Senior Lecturer in Orthodox Christianity at the University of Winchester. He was previously Director of the Centre for Orthodox Studies at University of Wales Lampeter. Apart from Greek patristics and Orthodox theology, his interests lie in iconology, Christian semiotics and sacred art. His publications include Art as Theology (Equinox, 2007) and This is My Beloved Son: The Transfiguration of Christ (Paraclete Press, 2010).
J. Matthew Ashley is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Chair of the Theology Department at the University of Notre Dame. He has written on political and liberation theology with particular interest in the role that Ignatian spirituality has played in the formulation of these theologies. Expanding on that work, he is currently completing a book on the place of Ignatian spirituality in twentieth-century theology, and beginning research on the interrelations between Christian theology and the science of evolution.
Ed Block is professor of English at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, where he teaches courses on poetry and creative writing. His recent research interests include the poetry of Denise Levertov. His poetry has appeared in Crosscurrents, Review for Religious, Janus Head, The Way of St. Francis and other venues. edwin.block@marquette.edu
Luk Bouckaert is Emeritus Professor of Ethics at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. A philosopher and an economist by training, his research and publications are in the fields of business ethics and spirituality. In 1987 he co-founded the interdisciplinary Centre for Economics and Ethics at Leuven. In 2000, he started the SPES Forum (Spirituality in Economics and Society) and some years later the international European SPES Forum. Recent publications in English include: Spirituality as a Public Good (co-edited with Laszlo Zsolnai, Garant Publishers, 2007), Frugality. Rebalancing Material and Spiritual Values in Economic Life (co-edited with H.Opdebeeck & L.Zsolnai, Oxford, [End Page 152] 2008), Imagine Europe (co-edited with J. Eynikel, Garant Uitgevers N V, 2009).
David R. Blumenthal is the Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies at Emory University. He teaches and writes on constructive Jewish theology, medieval Judaism, Jewish mysticism, and holocaust studies. His previous published works include God at the Center (Harper and Row, 1988; reprinted Jason Aronson, 1994); Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest (Westminster / John Knox, 1993), and Philosophic Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2006).
Joachim Brink is a freelance photographer and writer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Born in 1978, he dropped out of Law School to become a journalist. His photographs have been published in several magazines, and he is a frequent reviewer of books and films. www.joachimbrink.com
Scott Cairns holds the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair in English at the University of Missouri. His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Image, The Paris Review, Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing. His most recent books are Compass of Affection (Paraclete Press, 2006), Short Trip to the Edge (HarperOne, 2007) and Love's Immensity (Paraclete Press, 2007). His long essay, The End of Suffering (Paraclete Press), appeared in 2009. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006. cairns@missouri.edu
Steven Chase is a Resident Scholar at the Collegeville Institute of Ecumenical and Cultural Research. He has taught Christian Spirituality for twenty years and is the author of several books including most recently Nature as Spiritual Practice and an accompanying book of "creation practices," Field Guide to Nature as Spiritual Practice (forthcoming, Eerdmans, 2011). For Westminster John Knox Press he is currently writing a theological commentary on the book of Job.
Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, in Oregon—"the best spiritual magazine in the country," says Annie Dillard. Doyle is the...
