Ronald D. Whitherup is the superior general of the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice in Paris, France, and the author of numerous books on the bible, including Biblical Fundamentalism and St. Paul: Called to Conversion.

Fr. Rolheiser, Ph.D, STD, a Roman Catholic priest, is the General Councillor for Canada for his order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He is a community-builder, teacher, and writer, with offices in Toronto and Rome. He received his doctorate of sacred theology from the University of Louvain, Belgium. For most of the 28 years of his priesthood, he taught theology and philosophy at the Newman Theological College in Edmonton, Alberta. His books are popular throughout the English-speaking world and his weekly column is carried by more than seventy newspapers worldwide.

Rowan A. Greer is a professor emeritus of Yale University Divinity School. He has trained three generations of historical theologians and early church scholars and is the recipient of the Association of Theological Booksellers’ Book of the Year Award for Christian Hope and Christian Life, also from Herder & Herder. An authority in Anglican history and patristic readings of scripture, Greer is currently writing about major works in early Christian mysticism and theology, including the works of Evagrius Ponticus.

Roy Abraham Varghese is the coauthor of the award-winning There Is a God and the author of The Wonder of the World. He lives in Garland, Texas.

Roy I. Wilson, born of an Indian father and non-Indian mother, grew up in both the Christian and Native traditions. He has served as tribal chairmen of the Cowlitz Indian tribe; in national office in the Indian world as well as in the Native American arm of the United Methodist Church; as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Small Tribes Organization of Western Washington; as a college professor; and as a member of the board of managers of St. Paul’s School of Theology.

A pedagogue, poet and philosopher for all time, chronicler of everyday life, storyteller, essayist, theologian, academician, author of children books, psychoanalyst, Rubem Alves is one of Brazil s most respected intellectuals. A prolific writer his bibliography to date includes more than fifty titles in different languages with a strong autobiographic bent, Rubem Alves is one of the most brilliant craftsmen of the Portuguese language. In his texts the plasticity of the language achieves varying forms and expressions of rare and always surprising uniqueness. Rubem Alves is passionate about life, a...

Rudolf Stertenbrink, O.P., is a friar of the Dominican order known for his powerful homilies. He has published a series of books on preaching and a selection of the writings of Thérèse of Lisieux. He resides in Hamburg, Germany.

Ruth Pfau was born in Leipzig, Germany and after World War escaped to the West. She became a doctor, and joined a Catholic order who sent here to work with lepers in Pakistan where she still resides today.

Alberto Hurtado, SJ, is a saint of our time. His thought emerged from the intellectual and political currents of his time, yet his writings foreshadow the papal and Society documents on social justice that form the basis of our ministries today. This volume is an annotated translation of St. Alberto Hurtado, SJ, work: Moral Social. Working late at night during the last years of his life, Hurtado produced the rough typescript of this book, in which condition it remained after his death in 1952 until the Pontificia Universidad Católica de...