Presenters
Christine
M. Bochen is Professor of Religious Studies at Nazareth
College, Rochester, NY. A founding member of the International
Thomas Merton Society and a past President, she edited The
Courage for Truth, a volume of Thomas Merton's letters to
writers; Learning to Love, the sixth volume of Merton's journals;
and Thomas Merton: Essential Writings, a anthology of Merton
writings, published in the Modern Spiritual Masters Series
(Orbis). With William H. Shannon and Patrick F. O'Connell,
she co-authored The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia (Orbis, 2002).
John
Collins is a Lecturer and former Director of the Teacher
Certification Program at the College of the Holy Cross. He
presented a Thomas Merton/Walker Percy paper at the ITMS Conference,
Bellarmine College, June, 2001, which was subsequently published
in The Merton Annual 15, Fall, 2002. He presented a paper
titled "We Are Prodigals in a Distant Land-A Perceptive
on Evil by Thomas Merton," at a symposium, "The
Anatomy of Evil," held at Holy Cross in 2002. It was
published in The Merton Seasonal, Spring 2003. He holds a
Ph.D. from Boston College.
Thomas
Del Prete is author of Thomas Merton and the Education
of the Whole Person (1990) and past President of the International
Thomas Merton Society. He is currently Director of the Jacob
Hiatt Center for Urban Education and Chair of the Education
Department at Clark University.
Jonathan
Montaldo was the Director of the Thomas Merton Center
at Bellarmine University, the official repository of Merton's
legacy, from 1998-2001. He served as President of the International
Thomas Merton Society from 2001-2003 and is the General Editor
of the Fons Vitae Thomas Merton Series, a multi-volume compendium
of Merton's writing on World Religions. His works include
edited volumes Entering the Silence, (The Merton Journals,
Volume 2, 1996), and (with Patrick Hart) The Intimate Merton:
His Life from His Journals (1999). The Intimate Merton has
been translated into ten languages. His Dialogues with Silence:
Thomas Merton's Prayers & Drawings, already translated
into five languages, appeared in October 2001. He most recently
edited Merton & Hesychasm: The Prayer of the Heart (2003)
with Bernadette Dieker, and is writing a text to accompany
the photographs of Harry Hinkle to be published as The Landscape
of Contemplation: A Pilgrimage to Thomas Merton's Gethsemani
by the University of Kentucky Press in 2004.
Patrick
F. O'Connell (HC '69) is Associate Professor in the Departments
of English and Theology at Gannon University, Erie, PA. He
holds doctoral degrees in literature from Yale University
and in theology from Fordham University. He served as fifth
president of the International Thomas Merton Society and is
currently editor of The Merton Seasonal, a quarterly journal
jointly published by the ITMS and the Merton Center of Bellarmine
University, the major repository of Merton's papers. He is
co-author with William H. Shannon and Christine Bochen of
The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia (Orbis, 2002) and editor of
The Vision of Thomas Merton (Ave Maria, 2003). He has written
and spoken widely on Merton and other topics in spirituality.
Rev.
William Reiser, S.J., is Professor of Theology in the
Religious Studies Department at the College of the Holy Cross.
Over the past twelve years he has also served as an associate
staff member at the Center for Religious Development in Cambridge.
His most recent books are Jesus in Solidarity with His People
(Liturgical Press, 2000) and To Hear God's Word, Listen to
the World (Paulist Press, 1997). Father Reiser did his graduate
studies at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology and at Vanderbilt
University. For the past fifteen years he has also been involved
pastorally and catechetically in Worcester's Hispanic community.
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