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David Paul Deavel is associate editor of Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture and contributing editor for Gilbert Magazine. He has a PhD in theology from Fordham University and has taught at the University of St. Thomas and the St. Paul Seminary. His writing has appeared in a number of books as well as a wide variety of popular and scholarly journals including America, Books & Culture, Catholic World Report, Chesterton Review, Christian Century, Commonweal, First Things, National Review, Journal of Markets and Morality, New Black friars, and Touchstone. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with his wife Catherine, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, and their five children.
Nancy Enright is associate professor of writing and director of First Year Writing at Seton Hall University. She serves on the board of advisors for Catholic studies and as a senator on the faculty senate. She has published articles on Dante, Augustine, Julian of Norwich, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis. She and her husband live in Hoboken, New Jersey, with their daughter. [End Page 191]
Caery Evangelist is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Portland. She received her doctorate specializing in medieval philosophy from Duke University and has taught at Duke, Tulane, and Wittenberg University. Her research interests center on the work of Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, and focus in particular on their theories of cognition. Her articles have appeared in Philosophy and Theology, Medievalia, and forthcoming in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.
Daniel Moran is a part-time lecturer in the English department of Rutgers University, from which he earned his MA and where he currently teaches courses on twentieth-century literature and introductory surveys. He is also the English department chairperson for East Brunswick Public Schools, New Jersey, and a PhD candidate in the history and culture program at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. His previous publications include examinations of the works of Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and Alexander Pope.
John Henry Newman (1801-90) is perhaps the most famous convert from Anglicanism to the Catholic Church. Educated at Trinity College, Oxford, Newman was made fellow of Oriel College in 1822 and three years later was ordained to the Anglican priesthood. He was appointed Vicar of the university church, St. Mary the Virgin, where he delivered his subsequently published and vastly popular Parochial and University Sermons. From 1833 to 1839 he was de facto leader of the Tractarian Movement, a religious revival at Oxford that identified Anglicanism as the Via Media between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism. While writing his Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845), however, he was persuaded that the Via Media was a "paper theory" and that Roman Catholicism was the successor of the primitive church. Newman was received into the Catholic Church in the same year and was ordained to the priesthood in 1847. He was appointed the rector of the newly founded Catholic University of Ireland in 1851, in preparation for [End Page 192] which he gave the series of lectures that later formed a major portion of The Idea of a University. In 1864 he wrote his celebrated Apologia pro Vita Sua. Among his many other notable works are his Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870) and his Letter to the Duke of Norfolk in defense of papal infallibility (1875), along with a vast collection of sermons, poems, meditations, essays, and novels. Newman was created cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in 1879 and was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010.
Patrick F. O'Connell, professor of English and theology at Gannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania, is coauthor (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.
Brian D. Robinette is associate professor in the department of theological studies at Saint Louis University. He has published several articles in systematic and philosophical theology and is the author of Grammars of Resurrection: A Christian Theology of...
