Although the authors of this dictionary are from different cultural backgrounds—one from Philadelphia and the other from San Salvador—they have a number of resources in common. Both of them pursued doctoral studies at the University of Louvain, in Belgium. Both officially are doctors of philosophy but nonetheless have extensive theological backgrounds.
Stephen F. Brown, who did his undergraduate studies at St. Bonaventure University, has spent over twenty years teaching undergraduate and graduate students in the Theology Department at Boston College.
Juan Carlos Flores, who studied as an undergraduate at Connecticut College and as a master’s student at Boston College, teaches undergraduate philosophy at Providence College. His doctoral dissertation focused on the doctrine of the Trinity in the writings of one of the outstanding late thirteenth-century theologians, Henry of Ghent.
Both authors are also editors of medieval Latin philosophical and theological texts. In brief, the world of medieval thought is and has been the center of their teaching and research.