Jim McManus, C.Ss.R., served several tenures as the provincipal superior of the Redemptorist Congregation in the United Kingdom. Known worldwide for his work as a moral theologian, he is also the popular author of The Healing Power of the Sacraments, Healing in the Spirit, and Hallowed Be Thy Name. His name is familiar to thousands of priests and religious through the work of Hawkstone Hall, the international renewal center that he established in 1973.

Joan Chittister is an internationally known author and lecturer, and the executive director of Benetvision: A Resource and Research Center for Contemporary Spirituality. She is past president of the Conference of American Benedictine Prioresses and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. She currently serves as cochair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women, a partner organization of the UN. Her books include The Friendship of Women, The Gift of Years, In Search of Belief, In the Heart of the Temple, and Wisdom Distilled from the Daily. She lives in Erie,...

Joan Ohanneson was an author, a producer, a teacher, and an international speaker who lectured extensively on Hildegard of Bingen. She was known for her contributions in the areas of spirituality, sexuality, and women’s gifts.

Johann Adam Möhler, a Roman Catholic theologian and Church historian.

Johann Baptist Metz (born 1928) is a Catholic theologian. He is Ordinary Professor of Fundamental Theology, Emeritus, at Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, Germany. A student of Karl Rahner, he broke with Rahner's transcendental theology in a turn to a theology rooted in praxis. Metz is at the center of a school of political theology that strongly influenced Liberation Theology. Metz is one of the most influential post-Vatican II German theologians. His thought turns around fundamental attention to the suffering of others. The key categories of his theology are memory,...

John A. Sanford was an Episcopal priest and Jungian analyst. His wrote many books on biblical interpretation, dreams, the afterlife, mystical Christianity, ministry, and other topics that relate to spirituality and psychology.

John E. Thiel is Professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University. His other books include Imagination and Authority: Theological Authorship in the Modern Tradition, Nonfoundationalism, and Senses of Tradition: Community and Development in Catholic Faith. Twice a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dr. Thiel is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the American Theological Society.