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David D. Arndt is visiting assistant professor of Liberal Arts at Saint Mary’s College of California, where he teaches the Collegiate Seminar, a four-semester sequence of courses in core texts. An earlier version of this essay was published by The Bishop John S. Cummins Institute for Catholic Thought, Culture, and Action.

Peter J. Colosi is assistant professor of philosophy at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. From 2009 to 2015 he was assistant/associate professor of moral theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. From 1999 to 2007 he was instructor/assistant professor of philosophy for Franciscan University of Steubenville at their program in Gaming, Austria. He earned his BS in mathematics from Franciscan University, an MA in Franciscan Studies from St. Bonaventure University, and his MPhil and PhD from the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. His website is www.peterjcolosi.com. Since 2007 he has been organizing, with friends in Europe, a series of International Symposia on Pope Saint John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. All of the Symposia talks can be viewed at www.tobinternationalsymposia.com.

Bárbara Díaz is presently director of the History Institute of the Universidad de Los Andes, Chile. She studied in Uruguay and Spain, [End Page 170] where she earned her PhD at the University of Navarra. After teaching for several years in Montevideo, she settled in Chile and became a faculty member of the Universidad de los Andes in 2013. Her areas of study are history of political thought, particularly focused on the School of Salamanca and philosophy of history. Among her writings are the book El internacionalismo de Vitoria en la era de la globalización (The internationalism of Vitoria in the globalization era) (2005); and the articles “Alberto Methol Ferré: una influencia fundamental en el pensamiento del Papa Francisco” (Alberto Methol Ferré: an essential influence in Pope Francis’s thought) (2015); “Delito y castigo a los infieles en el pensamiento de Francisco de Vitoria” (Crime and punishment of infidels in Francisco de Vitoria’s thought) (2010); and “Guerra y comunidad internacional: Vitoria y Suárez” (War and international community: Vitoria and Suárez) (2009).

Thomas P. Harmon is professor of theology and culture at John Paul the Great Catholic University in Escondido, California. He previously taught at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. He received his MA and PhD in theology from Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida, and his BA in philosophy from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He is coeditor with Roger W. Nutt of the forthcoming Wisdom and the Renewal of Catholic Theology: Essays in Honor of Matthew L. Lamb (Pickwick Press).

James V. Schall, SJ is professor emeritus from Georgetown University. His books include At the Limits of Political Philosophy, On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs, and Remembering Belloc. His latest book is Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught.

William Tate earned his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently professor of English and dean of arts and letters at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. His current research focuses on connections among theology (with special interest in Karl Barth and Herman Bavinck), philosophy [End Page 171] (especially Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Paul Ricoeur), and poetry (particularly Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Richard Wilbur). He also teaches and writes about English Renaissance literature.

Linda Zagzebski is George Lynn Cross Research Professor and Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma. She is president of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division (2015–16), and is past president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (1996–97) and past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers. She has given many important lectures, including the Gifford Lectures (St. Andrews, 2015), the Wilde Lectures (Oxford, 2010), the Kaminski Lectures (Catholic University of Lublin, 2011), the Aquinas Lecture (Marquette, 2013), and the Romanell Lectures of Phi Beta Kappa (2005). Her publications range over epistemology, philosophy of religion, and virtue ethics, including her most...

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