Guy Gaucher, OCD, is a Carmelite friar and auxilary bishop emeritus of the dioces of Bayeux and Lisieux. He is the general editor of the critical edition of St. Therese's work and the foremost Theresian scholar in France.

Peter H. Van Ness, formerly Dean of Academic Affairs at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, and currently Visiting Associate professor of Religion at Columbia University, is the author of Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence: The Contemporary Predicament.

Hans Urs von Balthasar was a Swiss theologian and Catholic priest who was to be created a cardinal of the Catholic Church but died before the ceremony. He is considered one of the most important Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century.

Harold Ivan Smith is a bestselling author of more than twenty books about grief and bereavement. Smith holds a doctorate of ministry from Asbury Theological Seminary and is a member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling and the National Hospice Association's National Council of Hospice Professionals. Harold Ivan Smith makes his home in Kansas City, Missouri.

Fr. Harvey D. Egan, S.J., D.Theol., is a leading expert on Christian mysticism and the thought of Karl Rahner. He is Emeritus Professor of Systematic and Mystical Theology at Boston College, where he taught for forty years. Fr. Egan received his doctorate of theology under the direction of Karl Rahner from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, Germany, and he is the recipient of the Robert H. Goddard Distinguished Alumni Award from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has written several books, has translated many writings by Karl Rahner, and is the author of...

Hedwig Lewis, S.J. was born in Mumbai (Bombay), India, in 1945. He joined the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), Gujarat Province in 1964 and was ordained a priest and was appointed as lecturer at St. Xaviers College, Ahmedabad in 1977. Fr. Lewis has two master s degrees (one in English literature [India] and one in human resource development [USA]). He has held several administrative posts, including rector and principal of St. Xaviers College, director of the Xavier Institute of Languages, and editor of several magazines, including Navajuni. He received the Rev....

Hellmut Luetzner, MD, is a doctor who specializes in internal medicine with a focus on fasting. In 1975, he developed the fasting clinic in Germany, which he still heads today. He is the author of Successful Fasting: The Easy Way to Cleanse Your Body of Its Poisons.

Henri-Marie de Lubac, S.J. was a French Jesuit priest who became a cardinal of the Catholic church, and is considered to be one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. His writings and doctrinal research played a key role in the shaping of the Second Vatican Council.

Henri J.M. Nouwen, author of more than 40 books, was considered one of the great spiritual writers of modern times. He taught at the University of Notre Dame, Harvard and Yale, but shared teh alst ten years of his life with people with mental handicaps as pastor of the l'Arche Daybreak community in Toronto, Canada