List of Contributors

Michael Amaladoss S.J., was born on Dec 8, 1936 in Tamilnadu, South India and joined the Jesuits in 1953. He has a M.A. in Liturgy and a PhD in systematic theology from the Catholic Institute in Paris (1972). He has been Professor of Theology at St. Paul’s Seminary, Trichy (1973-76) and Vidyajyoti Faculty of Theology in Delhi (1973-1983, 1995-2006) and taught in many theological centres across the world: Paris, Bruxelles, Washington DC, Cincinnati, Berkeley, Manila and Thailand. He has published 34 books (English and Tamil), some of them translated into other languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Indonesian, Japanese and Vietnamese). He has edited 8 books and written about 500 theological articles. He also has a degree in Karnatic music and has composed music for about 150 hymns in Tamil, of which about 75 have been recorded.

Christopher Altieri holds a PhD from the Pontifical Gregorian University and is a journalist and editor. He has worked and written for several leading Catholic news outlets, including Vatican Radio and the Catholic Herald. He is author of three books: The Soul of a Nation: America as a Tradition of Inquiry and Nationhood (2015, Pickwick), Into the Storm: Chronicle of a Year in Crisis (2020, TAN Books), and Signs of the Times: How to read the news without losing your faith (2021, CTS).

Frederick C. Bauerschmidt is Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland and a deacon of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Among his recent publications are The Essential Summa Theologiae: A Reader and Commentary (Baker Academic, 2022) and No Lasting City: Essays on Theology, Politics, and Culture (Word on Fire Academic, 2023). His book The Love That is God: An Invitation to Christian Faith (Eerdmans, 2020) won the 2023 Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing.

Michael J. Baxter is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame (USA). He has also taught at Regis University in Denver, DePaul University, the University of Dayton, and the University of Notre Dame (1996-2011). He has published articles in the DePaul Law Journal, Modern Theology, Communio, Pro Ecclesia, and Nova et Vetera and is completing a book of essays, to be published with Cascade Press, called Blowing the Dynamite of the Church: Radicalism Against Americanism in Catholic Social Ethics.

Kimberly Hope Belcher is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, in Liturgical Studies. She uses phenomenology, postcolonial thought, and ritual theory to study Christian worship.

Jana Marguerite Bennett is Professor of Moral Theology and Department Chairperson at the University of Dayton. She holds a PhD from Duke University and an MDiv from Garrett- Evangelical Theological Seminary. Her most recent book, co-edited with David Cloutier, is Naming Our Sins: How Recognizing the Seven Deadly Vices Can Renew the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2019), which won first place in the 2020 Catholic Press Association sacraments category. She is also the author of Singleness and the Church: A New Theology of the Single Life (New York: Oxford, 2017). She is married with three children, and directs the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd program in her Dayton, OH parish.

Stephen Bullivant is Professor of Theology and the Sociology of Religion at St Mary’s University, UK, and Professorial Research Fellow in Theology and Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. His books include Catholics in Contemporary Britain: Faith, Society, Politics (Oxford University Press, 2022; with Ben Clements), and Vatican II: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2023; with Shaun Blanchard).

James J. Buckley is Professor emeritus from Loyola University Maryland. He has written articles in Modern Theology, Pro Ecclesia. A Journal for Catholic and Evangelical Theology, Theological Studies, The Thomist, and other journals. He authored, with Frederick Bauerschmidt, Catholic Theology. An Introduction (Blackwell, 2017). He now has in mind a project on whether and how Catholics can do systematic theology in an unsystematic world but is also intent on spending time with three grandchildren (Sarah, Xavier, and Kate).

David B. Burrell, C.S.C. (1933 - 2023) was Theodore Hesburgh Professor in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame, and also taught in Tantur, Israel; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Kampala, Uganda; and Nairobi, Kenya. From 1982 he worked on comparative issues in philosophical theology in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He is widely published, including Knowing The Unknowable God: Ibn Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas (Notre Dame, 1992), Original Peace (with Elena Malits)(Paulist, 1998); Al-Ghazali on Faith in Divine Unity and Trust in Divine Providence (Fons Vitae, 2001); Questing for Understanding: Persons, Places, Passions (Cascade 2012).

Michael M. Canaris, PhD is an Associate Professor of Ecclesiology and Systematic Theology at Loyola University Chicago’s Institute of Pastoral Studies, where he helps coordinate the Institute’s programs in the United Kingdom and Rome. He specializes in the intersection of theologies of migration, Ignatian spirituality, and ecclesiology. He was the last Master’s student to write a thesis under Francis A. Sullivan, S.J., and the last doctoral student of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. He has published monographs on both of them.

William T. Cavanaugh is Professor of Catholic Studies and Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the author of nine books, most recently The Uses of Idolatry (Oxford University Press, 2024). He is also editor of seven books and co-editor of the journal Modern Theology. Dr. Cavanaugh’s work has been published in seventeen languages, and he has lectured on six continents.

Angela Russell Christman (1958-2020) was Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland. She was the author of “What Did Ezekiel See?” Christian Exegesis of Ezekiel’s Vision of the Church from Irenaeus to Gregory the Great (Brill, 2005) and contributor to Isaiah: Interpreted by Early Christian Medieval Commentators (The Church’s Bible) (Eerdmans, 2007).

Gavin D’Costa is Head of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol. He advises the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales and Vatican City on interreligious dialogue. Recent books include Sexing the Trinity (2000), The Meeting of Religions and the Trinity (2000) and Theology in the Public Square (Blackwell, 2005). He is currently researching theological social issues raised by religious pluralism in liberal democracies.

Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, O.P., a native New Yorker, is a Dominican theologian who served as Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He was ordained to the episcopacy on 11 July 2009. Archbishop Di Noia is the author of The Diversity of Religions: A Christian Perspective (Catholic University of America Press, 1992); Grace in Season: The Riches of the Gospel in Seventy Sermons (Cluny, 2019); Theology as an Ecclesial Discipline: Ressourcement and Dialogue (Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming); and the co-author of The Love That Never Ends: A Key to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (Our Sunday Visitor Press, 1996). He has written many articles and reviews.

Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. (1918-2008), who was made a Cardinal by St. Pope John Paul II in 2001, was McGinley Professor of Theology at Fordham University. He authored numerous articles and books, including Models of the Church (1974), The Craft of Theology (1995), The Priestly Office (1997), The Assurance of Things Hoped for (1997), The Splendor of Faith. The Theological Vision of Pope John Paul II (2003), and Newman (2005).

Carlos M.N. Eire is the T. L. Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. A specialist in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, he is the author of various books, including Reformations: The Early Modern World (2016). His memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana (2003) won the National Book Award and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. All of his books are banned in Cuba, where he has been proclaimed an enemy of the state – a distinction he regards as the highest of all honors.

Joseph S. Flipper serves as Mary Ann Spearin Chair of Catholic Theology at the University of Dayton with appointments in the Department of Religious Studies and the Race and Ethnic Studies Program. He is the author of Between Apocalypse ad Eschaton: History and Eternity in Henri de Lubac, which examines the French Jesuit Henri de Lubac’s theological account of history in the context of the broad revival of eschatological thinking in the twentieth century. He was a 2020 Fulbright Scholar at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in the Faculty of History, Geography, and Political Science.

Michelle A. Gonzalez (Michelle Maldonado) is Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Scranton. She is the author of multiple books including Sor Juana: Beauty and Justice in the Americas (Orbis Books, 2003), Afro-Cuban Theology: Religion, Race, Culture and Identity (University Press of...