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Paul F. Knitter is a leading theologian of religious pluralism. He holds a licentiate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (1966) and a doctorate from the University of Marburg, Germany (1972).

David Lyle Jeffrey has worked and taught at Baylor since 2000. He holds a B.A. degree from Wheaton College and a Ph.D. from Princeton. He served Baylor as Provost, Senior Vice Provost and as Distinguished Professor of Literature and Humanities. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1996. Named Inaugural Professor of the Year at the University of Ottawa in 1995, he has also been Guest Professor at Peking University (Beijing) since 1996. He served as Department Chair of English both at the University of Victoria and the University of Ottawa, and has taught also at the Universities of Rochester, Hull (UK) and Regent College. Jeffrey is General Editor and co-author of *A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature* (1992). Among his other books are *The Early English Lyric and Franciscan Spirituality* (1975); *By Things Seen: Reference and Recognition in Medieval Thought* (1979); *Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition* (1984); *English Spirituality in the Age of Wesley* (1987; 2001); *English Spirituality in the Age of Wyclif* (1988; 2001); *People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture* (1996); with Brian J. Levy he has edited *The Anglo-Norman Lyric *(1990); and with Dominic Manganiello he has edited and co-authored *Rethinking the Future of the University* (1999). A book relating to literature, entitled *Houses of the Interpreter*, is forthcoming from the Baylor University Press in 2003. Also in 2003, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature/Modern Language Association. David Jeffrey's current research interests involve the relationship of biblical humanities to literary and artistic expression.

Professor Braude teaches courses on the Middle East and on European-Middle Eastern relations. In addition to those interests his research also focuses on religious, racial, and ethnic identities in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim culture. Currently he is completing *Sex, Slavery, and Racism: The Secret History of the Sons of Noah*, which examines the construction of attitudes toward color and identity from the ancient Near East and the classical world to the present. More broadly, he is interested in post-national conceptions of historiography. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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.