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Lieven Boeve is Professor of Fundamental Theology in the Faculty of
Theology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), where he is the co-ordinator of the Research Group ‘Theology in a Postmodern Context’. He was the International President of the European Society of Catholic Theology (2005–2009) and is currently serving as Dean of his faculty. His main publications in English include Interrupting Tradition: An Essay on
Christian Faith in a Postmodern Context (Leuven: Peeters/Grand Rapids,
MI: Eerdmans, 2003) and God Interrupts History: Theology in Times of
Upheaval (London/New York, NY: Continuum, 2007).
Erik Borgman is Full Professor of Systematic Theology in the Faculty of the
Humanities at Tilburg University (The Netherlands). He is editor in chief of
Tijdschrift voor theologie that Schillebeeckx founded in 1961 and a vice-
president of Concilium: International Journal for Theology, co-founded by Schillebeeckx in 1965. He is author of Edward Schillebeeckx: A Theologian
in His History. Volume 1: A Catholic Theology of Culture 1914–1965
(London/New York, NY: Continuum, 2003), the (first part of) the first full biography of Edward Schillebeeckx and a widely read and acclaimed book. He wrote, in the tradition of Schillebeeckx’s theological approach, on liberation theology: Sporen van de bevrijdende God: Universitaire
theologie in aansluiting op Latijnsamerikaanse bevrijdingstheologie, zwarte theologie en feministische theologie (Traces of the Liberating God:
Academic Theology Following Latin American Liberation Theology, Black Theology and Feminist Theology) (Kampen: Kok, 1990). His current research is about the intricate relations between contemporary culture and the Christian tradition; cf. his Metamorfosen: Over religie en moderne
cultuur (Metamorphoses: On Religion and Modern Culture) (Kampen:
Klement, 2006); ... want de plaats waarop je staat is heilige grond: God
als onderzoeksprogramma (For the Place Where You Stand is Holy: God
as a Research Program) (Amsterdam: Boom, 2008); Overlopen naar de
barbaren: Het publieke belang van religie en christendom (Going Over
to the Barbarians: The Public Importance of Religion and Christianity) (Kampen: Klement, 2009).
Benoît Bourgine is Professor of Dogmatic Theology in the Faculty of
Theology at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Louvain-la- Neuve (Belgium). His research deals with the meaning and significance of the work of Karl Barth and also with the dialogue of theological rationality and other rationalities (as found in science, politics and philosophy). He is the author of L’herméneutique théologique de Karl Barth: Exégèse et
dogmatique dans le quatrième volume de la Kirchliche Dogmatik (Leuven:
Peeters, 2003) and co-editor of Religions, sciences, politiques: Regards
croisés sur A.N. Whitehead (Louvain-la-Neuve, 31 mai–2 juin 2006)
(Franfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2007).
Gemma Tulud Cruz holds a PhD in Theology from Radboud University
Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Catholic Studies Department at DePaul University in Chicago (Illinois, USA) and an affiliate of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, also at DePaul. She has published about thirty book and journal articles and has served as consultant and speaker in various conferences in Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia. She is author of Pilgrims in the
Wilderness: An Intercultural Theology of Migration (Leiden: Brill, 2010). Oliver Davies is Professor of Christian Doctrine at King’s College London
(UK) and currently President of the Society for the Study of Theology. He worked on the German medieval theologian Meister Eckhart before publishing A Theology of Compassion: Metaphysics of Difference and
the Renewal of Tradition (London: SCM Press, 2001/Grand Rapids,
MI: Eerdmans, 2003) and The Creativity of God: World, Eucharist,
Reason (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). In Transformation Theology: Church in the World (London/New York, NY: T&T Clark,
2007) he presented with colleagues at King’s a new direction in theology which places sensibility, space and time and ecclesial commissioning at the centre of Christian revelation. He is currently working with colleagues inside and outside King’s on the development of this new theology, focusing on current areas of practical and ethical engagement, as well as doctrinal and philosophical debate.
Frederiek Depoortere is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation
– Flanders (FWO) in the Faculty of Theology of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), where he is a member of the Research Group ‘Theology in a Postmodern Context’. He is the author of The Death of God: An
Investigation into the History of the Western Concept of God (London/
New York, NY: T&T Clark, 2008), Christ in Postmodern Philosophy:
Gianni Vattimo, René Girard, Slavoj Žižek (London/New York, NY: T&T
Clark, 2008) and Badiou and Theology (London/New York, NY: T&T Clark, 2009).
Kathleen Dolphin, PVBM is Director of the Center for Spirituality and
Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame (Indiana, USA). She obtained her PhD at the University of Chicago with a dissertation on the integration of theology and spiritu- ality in the sermons of Edward Schillebeeckx. Her research interests focus on Schillebeeckx’s theology/spirituality as a resource for faith communities, especially as that applies to current ecclesial issues in the US.
Marc Dumas is Professor in the Faculty of Theology, Ethics and Philosophy
at the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada). His current research deals with the translations of and commentaries on Paul Tillich and with the topic of experience in theology. He also has a specific interest in both the identity of theology and its current transformations, in the collaboration between theologians and people/communities in search for meaning, and in the multiple forms of the contemporary religious experience. He published as editor the following books: Paul Tillich, prédicateur et théologien
pratique: Actes du XVIe Colloque International Paul Tillich Montpellier 2005 (Berlin: LIT, 2007), Théologie et culture: Hommages à Jean Richard
(Québec: PUL, 2004) (together with François Nault et Lucien Pelletier), and Pluralisme religieux et quêtes spirituelles: Incidences théologiques (Montréal: Fides, 2004) (together with François Nault). He has also written a number of articles on experience and correlation in the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx.
Stephan van Erp is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Systematic Theology
and Theory of Religion and Culture in the Faculties of Theology and Religious Studies at the Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands). He is managing editor of Tijdschrift voor theologie that Schillebeeckx founded in 1961 and editor in chief of ET Studies, the journal of the European Society for Catholic Theology (ESCT). His main publica- tions include The Art of God: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological
Aesthetics and the Foundations of Faith (Leuven: Peeters, 2004) and Vrijheid in verdeeldheid: De geschiedenis van religieuze tolerantie (Freedom
in Diversity: The History of Religious Tolerance) (Nijmegen: Valkhof Pers, 2008).
Anthony J. Godzieba is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious
Studies at Villanova University (USA) and the editor of Horizons, the journal of the College Theology Society. He specializes in fundamental theology, theology of God, Christology, theological anthropology, and philosophical theology. He is the author of Bernhard Welte’s Fundamental
Theological Approach to Christology (New York, NY: Peter Lang, 1994)
and the co-editor, together with Anne M. Clifford, of Christology: Memory,
a book on the theology of God for Crossroad/Herder, and is researching the intersection of art, music, theology, spirituality, and embodiment in early modern Catholicism.
Mary Catherine Hilkert, OP is Professor of Theology in the Department
of Theology at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA) and a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA). She specializes in contemporary systematic theology with particular interest in theological anthropology, fundamental theology, and feminist theologies. She is the author of Naming Grace: Preaching and the Sacramental
Imagination (New York, NY: Continuum, 1997) and Speaking with Authority: Catherine of Siena and the Voices of Women Today (Mahwah,
NJ: Paulist Press, 2008). She co-edited, together with Robert J. Schreiter, both The Praxis of Christian Experience: An Introduction to the Theology
of Edward Schillebeeckx (San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1989) and The Praxis of the Reign of God: An Introduction to the Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2002). Her next
book, Words of Spirit and Life: Theology, Spirituality, and Preaching, will be based on the Lyman Beecher Lectures which she will deliver at Yale University in October 2010. She is also working on a volume on theological anthropology titled Grace Enfleshed: A Sacramental Anthropology.
Jürgen Manemann is Director of the Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie
Hanover (Germany). He is the author of, among others, Carl Schmitt
und die Politische Theologie: Politischer Anti-Monotheismus (Münster:
Aschendorff, 2002), Rettende Erinnerung an die Zukunft: Essay über die
christliche Verschärfung (Mainz: Grünewald, 2005) and Über Freunde und Feinde: Brüderlichkeit Gottes (Topos-Taschenbuch; Kevelear: Topos,
2008). He is editor of and co-founder of the Jahrbuch Politische Theologie.
Kathleen McManus, OP is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the
University of Portland (Oregon, USA.) Her research focuses on Christology, suffering, and intercultural feminist and ecofeminist theology. She is the author of Unbroken Communion: The Place and Meaning of Suffering
in the Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx (Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2003). Her publications include articles related to Schillebeeckx and suffering in Theological Studies, The Way and Doctrine & Life.
Vincent J. Miller is the first Gudorf Chair in Catholic Theology and Culture
in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Dayton (Ohio, USA). He is author of Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in
a Consumer Culture (New York, NY: Continuum, 2003) and is currently
working on a book about how globalization is affecting religious belief and communities.
Hans-Joachim Sander is Full Professor of Dogmatics in the Faculty of
Catholic Theology at the University of Salzburg (Austria). He is the author of Macht in der Ohnmacht: Eine Theologie der Menschenrechte (Freiburg: Herder, 1999), Nicht verleugnen: Die befremdende Ohnmacht
Jesu (Würzburg: Echter, 2001), Nicht ausweichen: Die prekäre Lage der Kirche (Würzburg: Echter, 2002), Nicht verschweigen: Die zerbrechliche Präsenz Gottes (Würzburg: Echter, 2003) and Einführung in die Gotteslehre
(Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006). He published a commentary on the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et spes of Vatican II in Herders Theologischer Kommentar zum Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil, (ed. P. Hünermann and B.J. Hilberath; vol, 4; Freiburg: Herder, 2005), pp. 581–886.
Robert J. Schreiter holds the Vatican Council II Professorship of Theology
at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago (Illinois, USA) and is one of the most prominent theologians in North America. In 1974 he wrote his PhD thesis ‘Eschatology as a Grammar of Transformation’ under super- vision of Edward Schillebeeckx. In the period 2000–2006 Schreiter held the ‘Theology and Culture’-chair which was established by the Edward Schillebeeckx Foundation at the Faculty of Theology in Nijmegen. His many books include Constructing Local Theologies (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1985) and The New Catholicity: Theology between the Global and
the Local (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1997). He is editor of The Schillebeeckx Reader (New York, NY: Crossroad, 1984) and co-editor, together with
Mary Catherine Hilkert, of both The Praxis of Christian Experience: An
Introduction to the Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx (San Francisco,
CA: Harper & Row, 1989) and The Praxis of the Reign of God: An
Introduction to the Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx (New York, NY:
Fordham University Press, 2002).
Jean-Louis Souletie is Professor of Fundamental and Systematic Theology
in the Theologicum, the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Institut Catholique de Paris (France). His research topics are ‘Theology, culture and society’, ‘Transmission of faith in postmodernity’, and ‘Truth and method in systematic theology’. He is the author of La croix de
Dieu: Eschatologie et histoire dans la perspective christologique de Jürgen Moltmann (Paris: Cerf, 1997), La crise une chance pour la foi (Paris:
L’Atelier, 2002), Les grands chantiers de la christologie (Paris: Desclée, 2005), Catholicisme (Paris: Armand Colin, 2006), and ‘Social Sciences and Theology after L.-M. Chauvet’, Sacraments: Revelation of the Humanity
of God: Engaging the Fundamental Theology of Louis-Marie Chauvet (ed.
Philippe Bordeyne and Bruce T. Morrill; Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2008).
Elizabeth Kennedy Tillar has obtained her PhD from Fordham University
in 2000 with a dissertation entitled ‘Suffering for Others in the Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx’. Her work on Schillebeeckx has been published in three subsequent volumes of The Heythrop Journal: ‘The Influence of Social Critical Theory on Edward Schillebeeckx’s Theology of Suffering for Others’, The Heythrop Journal 42/2 (2001), pp. 148–72, ‘Eschatological Images of Prophet and Priest in Edward Schillebeeckx’s Theology of Suffering for Others’, The Heythrop Journal 43/1 (2002), pp. 34–59, and ‘Critical Remembrance and Eschatological Hope in Edward Schillebeeckx’s Theology of Suffering for Others’, The Heythrop Journal 44/1 (2003), pp. 15–42.