Contributor Notes

Paolo G. Carozza is an associate professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. He also teaches regularly at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy, and is a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. His scholarly books and articles are in the areas of international and comparative law, human rights, and jurisprudence.

Lawrence S. Cunningham is the John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. The author of over twenty books and hundreds of articles and reviews, Cunningham has won two teaching awards at Notre Dame. He lectures on Catholicism and culture frequently, both in the United States and abroad. His essay was first given, in a somewhat different form, as the Yves Simon Lecture at the University of Chicago Divinity School under the auspices of the Lumen Christi Institute.

J. Ranilo B. Hermida is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, and a director of the Philosophical Association of the Philippines. He has contributed articles to journals, both international and local, and participated in international conferences, most prominently at the International Conference on Metaphysics for the Third Millenium held in Rome where he was one of only two Filipino speakers. He is a member of the World Union of Catholic Philosophical Societies and the Asian Conference of Catholic Philosophers. He is presently finishing his work on Jurgen Habermas' Between Facts and Norms as an analytical tool to evaluate the Philippine democratic experience.

Timothy F. Jackson is currently a doctoral candidate at the Editorial Institute at Boston University. He earned his MA in English from Bridgewater State College.

David Salter is a lecturer in medieval English literature at the University of Edinburgh. His principal research interests lie in the culture of the later Middle Ages and early modern period, focusing in particular on romance and the literature of traditional religion. He is the author of Holy and Noble Beasts: Encounters with Animals in Medieval Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001), a study of the representation of animals in romance and saints' lives. Salter is currently writing a cultural history of the Franciscan Order in England, titled St. Francis and Cultural Memory: Catholicism and the English National Imagination, which is due to be published by Oxford University Press in 2007. In addition, he has published essays on subjects as diverse as Shakespeare's religious background, cultural history, and film and gender studies.

Nathan Schlueter is an assistant professor of political science at Hillsdale College. Schlueter received his PhD in politics from the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas in 1999. His dissertation, "One Dream or Two? Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.," was published by Lexington Books in 2002. His other publications include "Prospero's Second Sailing: A Machiavellian Reading of the Tempest" (in Shakespeare's Late Plays: Readings in Politics and Literature, Lexington Books, 2002), an exchange with Judge Robert Bork on abortion and the Constitution (First Things, January 2003), and the article "Yes, Aquinas, there is a Santa Claus" (Touchstone, December 2005). Presently he is working on a booklength manuscript titled Utopia Fiction: Recovering the Political Science of the Imagination.

Józef M. Życiński is a professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. He is also the archbishop of Lublin and Grand Chancellor of the Catholic University of Lublin. He serves as a member of the European Academy of Science and Art, the Pontifical Council for Culture, and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He is author of nearly forty books in philosophy of science, relativistic cosmology, and the history of the relationship between natural sciences and Christian faith.