About the Authors
- About the Authors
David Burr is the author of ten books and around 100 articles, mostly on Franciscan history. His major interest is in dissent, particularly in its apocalyptic form. His most recent book is on medieval exegesis of the book of Revelation.A graduate of Oberlin College, Union Theological Seminary and Duke University, he is currently an emeritus professor of history at Virginia Tech.
Paula Castillo has a Ph.D. in history from the Università degli studi of Padova (Italy) and the Universidad Nacional of Tres de Febrero (Argentina). Her research focuses on Late Medieval religious history, Franciscan history, particularly on problems of violence and forms of control. She is professor and researcher in the Culturas del Mediterráneo Program of the Instituto de Estudios Históricos (Universidad Nacional of Tres de Febrero).
Brendan Case is the Associate Director for Research of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. His research covers a range of topics in metaphysics, ethics, and biblical studies, with a particular focus on early Franciscan thinkers.
John M. Diamond is pursuing a Ph.D. in Theology from Loyola University Chicago, and is working on a dissertation on the epistemology and anthropology of Meister Eckhart. Previously, he received an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Dallas, and an M.T.S. from Southern Methodist University. His research interests focus on the mystical and apophatic traditions of Christian thought from the third century through the late middle ages, as well as in the development of doctrine in the areas of the Trinity, theological anthropology, and pneumatology.
Helmut Flachenecker holds the Chair for Franconian Regional History (Middle Ages) at the University of Würzburg. He is head of the "Research Center: History of the Teutonic Order." His recent publications focus on bishops and their secular power (11th-12th centuries) and include the co-edited volume Quelleneditionen zur Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens und anderer geistlicher Institutionen (2017).
Joel R. Gallagher received his Ph.D. in systematic theology from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He has taught theology at the Catholic University of America and Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, MD. He is married and has two daughters.
Timothy J. Johnson is the Craig and Audrey Thorn Distinguished Professor of Religion at Flagler College. His recent publications include the co-edited volumes, The Prayed Francis: Liturgical Vitae and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century (2019) and Preaching and New Worlds: Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Near and Far (2019).
Robert J. Karris is Emeritus Professor of the Franciscan Institute of St. Bonaventure University. He is responsible for the most recent monographs in the Bonaventure Texts in Translation Series, either as General Editor or translator. Key among these works are the three volumes that cover St. Bonaventure's Commentary on Luke's Gospel. He also published an annotated translation of Peter of John Olivi's Commentary on Luke's Gospel.
Thierry Meynard S.J., born in France in 1963, is currently professor and Ph.D. director at the philosophy department of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, where he teaches Western Philosophy and Latin Classics. He is the director of the Archive for the Introduction of Western Knowledge, at Sun Yat-Sen University. In 2012-2014, he was director of The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies, a study program established by the Jesuits in 1998. In 2003, he obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Peking University, presenting a thesis on Liang Shuming. From 2003 to 2006, he taught philosophy at Fordham University, New York. Since 2006, he is a member of the Macau Ricci Institute. He has authored in English language: The Jesuit Reading of Confucius (Boston: Brill, 2015), The Religious Philosophy of Liang Shuming (Boston: Brill, 2011), Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (Rome: IHSI, 2011), and co-authored with Sher-shiueh Li, Jesuit Chreia in Late Ming China (Bern: Peter Lang: 2014).
Pacelli Millane, a Poor Clare in Chicago, now lives in the Monastery in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec, Canada. She is presently the librarian and receives persons coming to the monastery for a...
