Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture

Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 5.1 (2002) 185-187

Contributor Notes

Antonio Calcagno holds an M.A. in philosophy from the Catholic University of Louvain with specialization in mediaeval and Renaissance philosophy. After beginning doctoral studies at the Husserl Archives at Louvain, he transferred to the University of Guelph, where he is now specializing in contemporary French social and political philosophy. He has written various articles on Edith Stein, phenomenology, and the relationship between modernity and postmodernity. He is the author of Giordano Bruno and the Logic of Coincidence.

R. Konyndyk DeYoung received her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2000. She has been teaching in the philosophy department at Calvin College (Grand Rapids, Mich.) for the last four years. Her research focuses on Aquinas's account of the virtues in the Summa Theologiae.

Michael Gorman is assistant professor of philosophy at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. He holds doctorates in philosophy and theology and has published historical and systematic articles on metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and christology.

Robert Jackson received his doctorate in English from New York University in the autumn of 2001, and is completing a study of regional American literature since 1865. With primary interests in modernism, Southern literature, African American literature, and religion in America, he is also working on a study that considers the impact of race, religion, and literary genre on environmental policy in the United States.

Thomas M. Kelly, Ph.D., is assistant professor of theology and Coordinator for the Study Center on Religion and Public Life at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. He is the author of Theology at the Void: The Retrieval of Experience (Notre Dame Press, 2002). This article for Logos is part of the first chapter of his next book titled Marriage as Discipleship: Sacramental Relationships and the Common Good. This work will explore the intersection of sacramental theology, theology of marriage, and social ethics. Dr. Kelly is married and has two sons.

Marsha Newman is Coordinator of the Liberal and Civic Studies Program at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with a special interest in the visionary art and writings of William Blake and Hildegard of Bingen. She occasionally teaches Hildegard as part of a Roman, Christian, Medieval course offered by Collegiate Seminar, a Great Books Program at St. Mary's.

Russell Pannier is professor of law at the William Mitchell College of Law. He has published articles in the areas of philosophy of logic, metaphysics, ethics, jurisprudence, and constitutional law. He is currently working on a book on St. Thomas Aquinas with Thomas D. Sullivan and Jeremiah Reedy (De Ente et Essentia: An Introduction to Aquinas's Basic Ontology).

James V. Schall, S.J., is a professor in the department of government at Georgetown University. His books include The Unseriousness of Human Affairs; At the Limits of Political Philosophy; Schall on Chesterton; Jacques Maritain: A Philosopher in Society; and Another Sort of Learning. He writes the following columns: "Sense and Nonsense" in Crisis; "Schall on Chesterton" in Gilbert!; "English Essays" in The Saint Austin Review; "Wit and Wonder" in Excelsis; and "On Essays and Letters" in The University Bookman.

Michael W. Tkacz is associate professor of philosophy and Director of the Institute for Christian Philosophy & the Natural Sciences at Gonzaga University. He is the translator of St. Augustine: The Political Writings (Hackett Publishing, 1994). His articles and reviews have appeared in The Thomist, The Review of Metaphysics, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, and elsewhere.

Michael Torre is associate professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. in philosophical and systematic theology from the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley), specializing in the work of Aquinas. His main interest is in diverse aspects of Aquinas's natural theology and in the philosophy of religion. He has published various articles and edited Freedom in the Modern World: Jacques Maritain, Yves R. Simon, Mortimer J. Adler (1989) for the...