Robert Hesse Ph.D. is a permanent Catholic deacon. He is Co-founder and President of Contemplative Network, dedicated to interdenominational Christian contemplative prayer teaching, scientific research and interfaith dialogue. He was inspired by Trappist Monk, Fr. Thomas Merton, while on retreat at Gethsemani Trappist monastery. Later he was appointed by Trappist Fr. Thomas Keating, Commissioned Presenter of Contemplative Outreach Ltd. (COL) and Keating’s emissary to the first COL dialogue with the Mind & Life Institute, in response to an invitation by The Dalai Lama to Keating.

Robert McClory has written widely on racism, politics, and religion for the past four decades. His work has appeared in the National Catholic Reporter, U.S. Catholic Magazine, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Reader. He is professor emeritus at Northwestern University’s Medical School of Journalism.

Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, studied in Rome during the years of the Second Vatican Council and was ordained there in 1965. After parish ministry in New York, he obtained his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Yale University. He has taught theology at the New York Archdiocesan Seminary and at the Maryknoll School of Theology; and has been visiting lecturer at Princeton Theological Seminary and Fordham University. From 1986 to 1993 Father Imbelli was Director of the Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry...

Robert Royal is the author of The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century and Dante Alighieri. He is editor in chief of The Catholic Thing, an online publication he founded with Michael Novak; the president of the Faith and Reason Institute, based in Washington, DC; the graduate dean of Catholic Distance University; and a member of the board of directors of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. He has taught at Brown University, Rhode Island College, and the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC.

Robert J. Wicks, is a professor at Loyola College in Baltimore, a professional mentor, and a retired clinical psychologist. He is the author of more than thirty books.

The Cuban-American Roberto Goizueta is presently a noted professor in the theology department at Boston College. He is past-president of the Society of Catholic Theology in the United States and of the Academy of Hispanic Catholic Theologians of the United States. Dr. Goizueta has published over 50 academic articles, and this book has received an award from the Association of Catholic Press. This work and the content of his unique Hispano/Latino theology are presented for the first time to the Spanish speaking world.

Rodney A. Howsare, PhD, is a professor of theology at DeSales University and the author of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Protestantism. He lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Larry S. Chapp, PhD, is a professor of theology at DeSales University, the author of The God Who Speaks: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theology of Revelation, and a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar. He lives in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania.