Tu Weiming
Tu Weiming is professor of Chinese History at Harvard Univeristy. He has also co- edited Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World(State Univ. of New York, 2000) and Confucianism and Human Rights (Columbia University Press, 1998).
Urs
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.
Valerie Mike
Vassilios Bakoyannis
Archimandrite Vassilios Bakoyannis was born in Greece in 1953 and was ordained in 1980. He serves in the metropolis of Patras, Greece. He received a bachelor's degree in theology from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, a master in theology from St. Vladimir Seminary, New York, and a PhD in theology from Atlantic International University, USA. Since 1975, he has authored over 50 spiritual books, several of which have been translated from Greek to English, Romanian, Russian, Arabic, Italian, German and Indonesian.
Wallace B. Clift
Walter Cardinal Kasper
Walter Cardinal Kasper was born in Heidenheim-Brenz, Germany, in 1933 and was ordained in 1957. He studied at the University of Tübingen where he later became professor of dogmatic theology. He also taught in the United States at the Catholic University in Washington, D.C., in 1983. In 1987 he was ordained bishop of Rottenberg-Stuttgart, Germany. Widely respected for his work in Christian ecumenical relations, Kasper was chosen in 1979 as one of a dozen Catholic theologians to sit on the World Council of Churches' Faith and Order Commission, one of...
Walter Kasper
Wendy M. Wright
Wendy M. Wright has taught the history of spirituality at the Weston School of Theology, Emmanuel College, the University of Nebraska, and Creighton University, She is the author of Sacred Dwelling and her articles on the spiritual life have appeared in such magazines as Weavings and Praying. She lives with her husband and three children in Omaha, Nebraska.
Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
In the late 1960s and early 1970s Granberg-Michaelson served for eight years on the staff of U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon. During that time, he was a member of Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C., which molded much of his understanding of how commitment, spiritual growth, small groups, and social witness shape the life of the local congregation. From 1976 to 1980 he served as managing editor for Sojourners. Subsequently he moved to Montana to establish and serve as president of the New Creation Institute, working on...