Contributor Notes
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James Gaffney is professor emeritus of ethics at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana. He is currently teaching as adjunct professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. He has held visiting professorships at several universities in the United States, Europe, and Africa. The author of eight books and editor of one, he has written nearly a hundred articles and chapters in books. His most recent publications include “Yad Vashem and Ramallah” (Christian Ethics Today), “Eastern Religions and the Eating of Meat” (Food for Thought), “Patriotism: Its Moral Credentials” (Politics and Morality), and “Ignatian Discernment” (An Ignatian Spirituality Reader).
Bryan A. Giemza is a reformed lawyer who enjoys writing and teaching American literature at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. With Donald Beagle he coauthored Poet of the Lost Cause: A Life of Father Ryan (2008), a book that examines the nineteenth century Catholic nexus in the American South through the riddle of a Confederate ideologue/priest. His latest book, Lost Colonies: Irish Catholic [End Page 177] Writers and the Invention of the American South, is forthcoming with LSU Press. He is currently at work on a monograph concerning the nature of debts in Ernest Hemingway’s short fiction.
Christopher M. Graney is professor of physics and astronomy at Jefferson Community & Technical College where he also helps to run the college observatory. He has recently been translating from Latin (together with his wife, Christina Graney) the writings of a number of sixteenth and seventeenth century astronomers, including Thomas Digges, Simon Marius, Johannes Hevelius, Martinus Hortensius, and Giovanni Battista Riccioli. He has also published papers on the scientific case for geocentrism in the seventeenth century.
Douglas V. Henry is associate professor of philosophy in the Honors College and master of Brooks Residential College at Baylor University. Along with articles on the philosophy of religion and on the virtues, he is the author of several studies of church-related higher education, including three edited books.
Keith Lemna is currently visiting assistant professor of systematic theology at Saint Meinrad School of Theology. He has taught at The Catholic University of America, where he received his PhD, and Belmont Abbey College. He has previously published in several journals, including The Heythrop Journal, Communio, Nova et Vetera, and International Philosophical Quarterly.
Ralph Martin is the director of graduate theology programs in the new evangelization at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit. He is a STD candidate at the Angelicum in Rome. He is also the president of Renewal Ministries, an organization devoted to Catholic renewal and evangelization. His most recent book is The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints. [End Page 178]
Patrick F. O’Connell, professor of English and theology at Gannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania, is co-author (with William H. Shannon and Christine M. Bochen) of The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia (2002) and has edited five volumes of Merton’s monastic conferences, most recently Monastic Observances (2010) He is also editor of the fifth volume of Journal (1997) for the Princeton edition of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. [End Page 179]
