Johannes Brachtendorf is professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen (Germany). He is the author of Die Struktur des menschlichen Geistes nach Augustinus. Selbstreflexion und Erkenntnis Gottes in “De Trinitate.” (2000), and of Augustins Confessiones (2006). He has also published a translation with commentary on Augustine’s De libero arbitrio (2006). He is also editor of the Latin-German edition of Augustine’s complete works. In 2002 he held the Augustinian Chair in the Thought of Augustine at Villanova University.
John Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities and professor of philosophy at Syracuse University and David R. Cook Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Villanova University, where he taught from 1968 until 2004. He is a specialist in continental philosophy and religion, or what is sometimes called “postmodern theology.” His most recent books are St. Paul among the Philosophers (Indiana University Press, 2009) and What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (Baker, 2007). He also serves as editor of the Fordham University Press book series “Perspectives in Continental Philosophy,” and chairman of the Board of Editors of Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory. Full information is available at: http://religion.syr.edu/Caputo.html.
Phillip Cary is professor of philosophy at Eastern University outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he is also scholar-in-residence at the Templeton Honors College. He is author of Augustine’s Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist (2000); Inner Grace: Augustine in the Traditions of Plato and Paul (2008); and Outward Signs: The Powerlessness of External Things in Augustine’s Thought (2008), all with Oxford University Press. His work on Augustine has also appeared in Augustinian Studies and in previous books in this series, Augustine and Politics (2005) and Augustine and Literature (2006). His other work includes a Biblical commentary, Jonah (Brazos Press, 2008) and a series of lecture courses on CD and DVD published by The Teaching Company, including Augustine: Philosopher and Saint; Luther: Gospel, Law and Reformation; Philosophy and Religion in the West; and The History of Christian Theology.
Jesse Couenhoven is assistant professor of moral theology in the humanities department at Villanova University. He is author, most recently, of an article on “What Sin Is” in Modern Theology, and daydreams about finishing work on a book manuscript on Augustine’s doctrine of original sin and the questions it raises about the nature of human freedom and moral responsibility.
Alex Eodice is professor of philosophy and former dean of the School of Arts and Science (2001–2008) at Iona College. He holds a Ph.D. from Fordham University and has published articles on Wittgenstein, American philosophy, and philosophy of law. He was visiting scholar at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University (Hilary Term, 2009).
Wayne J. Hankey studied classics, philosophy, and theology at King’s College and Dalhousie University, Halifax, the University of Toronto, and Oxford University (D. Phil., Theology, 1982). Having taught university classes for more than forty years, he is now Carnegie Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics and the Programme in Religious Studies at Dalhousie and King’s. He has held research positions and fellowships at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Boston College. He has published four monographs and edited eight volumes. His first monograph, God in Himself, on the Neoplatonic structuring of the doctrine of God in the Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, was published by Oxford University Press in 1987 and republished in 2000 in its series celebrating the new millennium, “Oxford Scholarly Classics.” He has published one hundred academic articles, chapters in books, and reviews, delivered more than seventy invited scholarly lectures in Canada, the United States, and Europe, and has produced scores of journalistic, theological, and devotional publications and addresses. His latest monograph is One Hundred Years of Neoplatonism in France: A Brief Philosophical History (Leuven: Peeters, 2006). He works mainly on Platonism and Neoplatonism, their history in the Latin West, mediaeval philosophy, ecological theology, and contemporary French philosophy. Since 1997, Dr Hankey has been Secretary and Editor of Dionysius, editing eleven volumes of this international journal. He maintains a website at http://classics.dal.ca/Faculty%20and%20Staff/Wayne_J._Hankey.php.
John Peter Kenney is professor of religious studies at Saint Michael’s College, where he was dean of the college for a decade. He was previously professor of religion and humanities at Reed College. He studied classics and philosophy at Bowdoin College and received his Ph.D. from Brown University in religious studies. His books include Mystical Monotheism: A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology (Brown University Press/University Press of New England, 1991) and The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions (Routledge, 2005). A new book, Contemplation and Classical Christianity, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Paul A. Macdonald Jr. is assistant professor of religion at Bucknell University. He works primarily at the intersection of western philosophy and Christian theology, and has sought in his recent writing to address perennial issues in religious and theological epistemology. He is the author of Knowledge and the Transcendent: An Inquiry into the Mind’s Relationship to God (The Catholic University of America Press, 2009), and has published articles in Religious Studies, Modern Theology, and The Thomist.
Gareth B. Matthews is professor of philosophy (emeritus) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He taught previously at the University of Virginia and the University of Minnesota. He is the author of many articles and three books on ancient, medieval, and early modern philosophy: Thought’s Ego in Augustine and Descartes (Cornell, 1992), Socratic Perplexity and the Nature of Philosophy (Oxford, 1999), and Augustine (Blackwell, 2005). He is also the editor of The Augustinian Tradition (California, 1999).
Roland Teske is Donald J. Schuenke Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Marquette University. He specializes in St. Augustine and medieval philosophers, especially William of Auvergne and Henry of Ghent. He has translated ten volumes of the works of St. Augustine, four volumes of the works of William of Auvergne, and three volumes of the works of Henry of Ghent. He has published over fifty articles on Augustine, over a dozen on William, and several on Henry. He has given the St. Augustine Lecture at Villanova and the Aquinas Lecture at Marquette University, and been a visiting professor at Santa Clara University, John Carroll University, and Villanova University.
Frederick Van Fleteren is professor at LaSalle University where he has taught for over twenty-three years. He is the general editor of Collectanea Augustiniana, the critically acclaimed series of studies of St. Augustine. He is also the editor of six volumes in that series. He is the co-editor of Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia. He is associate editor of Augustinian Studies. He has contributed more than a hundred articles and book reviews, and lectured on Augustine at Oxford University, Cambridge University, Kent University, Centre National de Recherche Scienfitique (Paris), Universität Tübingen, Universität Eichstätt, Universität Freiburg, Augustinianum (Rome), Lisbon, Vienna, Krakow, and Budapest.
James Wetzel is a professor of philosophy at Villanova University and the first permanent holder of the Augustinian endowed chair. He has for years looked to Augustine to learn something about the uneasy fit between sanctity and wisdom. He is still looking. Some of his recent essays include a meditation on the difference between Platonism and theism, a reframing of Augustine’s conception of will, and a reflection on what it may mean to be “born from above” or (alternatively) “born again.” Currently he is finishing up the draft of his next book, Augustine: A Guide for the Perplexed.