Gary A. Anderson is the Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in Judaism and Christianity in antiquity. He is the author of Sin: A History (2009) and Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition (2013), and editor of New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity (2013).
Fr. John Behr is dean and professor of patristics at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Mystery of Christ: Life in Death (2006), Irenaeus of Lyons: Identifying Christianity (2013), and Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image (2013).
Brian E. Daley, SJ, is the Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His recent publications include Light on the Mountain: Greek Patristic and Byzantine Homilies on the Transfiguration of the Lord (2013), Gregory of Nazianzus (2006), and The Hope of the Early Church (1991).
Douglas Finn is assistant professor of theology at Boston College, specializing in patristics.
Paul L. Gavrilyuk is the Aquinas Chair of Theology and Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas. He is the author of The Suffering of the Impassible God (2004) and Georges Florovsky and the Russian Religious Renaissance (2014), and coeditor with Sarah Coakley of The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity (2012).
Nonna Verna Harrison formerly taught at Saint Paul School of Theology, specializing in patristics and church history. She is the author of St. Basil the Great on the Human Condition (2005), St. Gregory of Nazianzus: Festal Orations (2008), and God’s Many-Splendored Image (2010).
David G. Hunter is the Cottrill-Rolfes Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Kentucky, specializing in early Christianity and patristics. He is the author of Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity: The Jovinianist Controversy (2007) and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies (2008).
John W. Martens is an associate professor at the University of St. Thomas, specializing in biblical studies. He is the author of The End of the World: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Film and Television (2003) and “Let the Little Ones Come to Me”: Children and Childhood in Early Christianity (2007).
Eric Phillips has a doctorate in medieval and early Christian studies from the Catholic University of America and is a pastor at Ebenezer Lutheran Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dennis P. Quinn is associate professor of interdisciplinary general education and interim associate dean of the College of Education and Integrative Studies, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, specializing in the Christianization of the Latin Roman World.
James C. Skedros is interim dean and professor of early Christianity and Byzantine history at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. He is the author of St. Demetrios of Thessaloniki: Civic Patron and Divine Protector (4th–7th c. CE) (1999).
J. Warren Smith is associate professor of historical theology at Duke Divinity School. He is the author of Passion and Paradise: Human and Divine Emotion in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa (2004) and Christian Grace and Pagan Virtue: The Theological Foundation of Ambrose’s Ethics (2010).
Regina L. Walton received a doctorate in religion and literature from Boston University and is pastor and rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Newton, Massachusetts. Her essays on George Herbert and seventeenth-century religious literature have appeared in Studia Liturgica and the volumes Preaching and the Theological Imagination (2015) and George Herbert, Beauty, and Truth: New Essays on Herbert’s Christian Aesthetic (forthcoming). Her poems have appeared in Poetry East, Scintilla, and other journals.
Bishop Kallistos Ware is Metropolitan of Diokleia and lecturer emeritus at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Orthodox Church, new ed. (1993), The Orthodox Way (1995), and The Inner Kingdom (2000), plus other books and numerous essays.