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Frederick Lawrence received his AB from St. John's College and D. Th. & PhD at the University of Basel. He has wrote publications since 2002; *Expanding Challenge to Authenticity in Insight: Lonergan's Hermeneutics of Facticity, Divyadaan: Journal of Philosophy & Education 15/3 (2004), 427-456; Grace and Friendship, Gregorianum 85/4 (2004), 795-820; Grace and Friendship: Postmodern Political Theology and God as Conversational, Il Teologo e la Storia: Lonergan's Centenary (1904-2004), edited by Paul Gilbert and Natalino Spaccapelo (Rome: Editrice Pontificia Universit Gregoriana, 2006), 123-151; The Dialectic Tradition/Innovation and the Possibility of a Theological Method, Il Teologo e la Storia: Lonergan's Centenary (1904-2004), edited by Paul Gilbert and Natalino Spaccapelo (Rome: Editrice Pontificia Universit Gregoriana, 2006), 249-264.*

For more than a decade, Professor Braman has been teaching in the philosophy department at Boston College. Before he received his PhD in philosophy, professor Braman pursued a variety of interests. He has lived all over the United States, from Wyoming to California, and has gone through many vocational phases. He has worked as an assistant sales manager, and his resume includes things as varied as time spent in military service with the Army Security Agency. During his time in the military, Braman took his first philosophy course through the University of Maryland. He remembers, "I really didn't like it all that much, and I swore I would never take another philosophy class at long as I lived." Now, it is this same professor who is the director of his own philosophy program, Perspectives, a series of courses that are offered for six credits each. Braman has also taught Capstone and Philosophy of the Person. All of the courses that professor Brian Braman teaches are inspirational, thought provoking, and, shall we say, philosophical. As the director of the Perspectives Program at Boston College, Braman has created this course to reflect some of his personal interests and passions.

Dr. DeLeeuw has responsibility for all administrative, fiscal, and human resource activities in the academic areas of Boston University. A graduate of the University of Detroit, she earned an MA and PhD in medieval studies at the University of Toronto and a Licentiate in medieval studies from the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies before joining the Boston College faculty as assistant professor of theology in 1979. She conducts research and teaches courses in the history of medieval religion.

Richard P. McBrien is a Crowley-O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Educated at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he has also served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. A leading authority on Catholicism, McBrien is the bestselling author of *Catholicism*, *Lives of the Popes*, and *Lives of the Saints*, as well as the general editor of *The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism*. Most recently a consultant for ABC News, McBrien offers regular commentary on all the major television networks. He is also a prize-winning syndicated columnist in the Catholic press.

Franz Wright's *Walking to Martha's Vineyard* received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His newest collection is *God's Silence* (2006). He is currently the visiting poet-in-residence at Brandeis University.