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Contributor Notes

William E. Carroll is the Thomas Aquinas Fellow in Science and Religion at Blackfriars Hall and a member of the faculty of theology of the University of Oxford. He is author of La Creacion y las Cien-cias Naturales: Actualidad de Santo Tomas de Aquino and coauthor with Steven E. Baldner of Aquinas on Creation. His interests include the reception of Aristotelian science in mediaeval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, the development of the doctrine of creation ex nihilo, and the appropriation of mediaeval discussions of creation and the natural sciences to contemporary science.

Michael Heller is professor of the philosophical faculty of the John Paul II University in Cracow. He is a member of the Pontifi-cal Academy of the Sciences in Rome, and an adjoint member of the Vatican Astronomical Observatory (Specola Vaticana). A laureate of the Templeton Prize and the founder of the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Heller’s scientific interests cover the fields of relativistic physics, especially relativistic cosmology, mathematical methods in physics, history and philosophy of science, and relations between science and theology. He is author of several books and many research papers, and also a member of many international societies.

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Kenneth W. Kemp teaches philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. His research interests include the relationship between science and religion. He has a strong inter-est in East and Central Europe and has been working for a num-ber of years on building connections between the University of St. Thomas and Catholic institutions of higher education in Poland and Ukraine. His translations of Józef

.Zycinski’s work includes (with

Zuzanna Maslanka) God & Evolution.

Edward T. Oakes, SJ is professor of theology at University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, the Catholic seminary for the Archdiocese of Chicago. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1966 and was ordained a priest in 1979. He earned his PhD in system-atic theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1987 and has taught at New York University and Regis University in Denver, Colorado. He is author of numerous works on Hans Urs von Balthasar including Pattern of Redemption: The Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, editor of German Essays on Religion, and coeditor, with David Moss, of the Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar. Among other works, Oakes has translated Balthasar’s The Theology of Karl Barth: Exposition and Interpretation, the Epilog to his fifteen-volume theological trilogy, and Josef Pieper’s The Concept of Sin. His most recent book is Infinity Dwindled to Infancy: A Catholic and Evan-gelical Christology.

Christopher Oleson is a member of the faculty of Thomas Aqui-nas College in Santa Paula, California. He received his PhD in phi-losophy from the Catholic University of America. He has published several articles on marriage and various bioethical issues in Touch-stone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, and The Linacre Quarterly, as well as contributing an essay to the book Human Embryo Adoption: Biotechnology, Marriage, and the Right to Life. He and his wife Rachel have seven children and live in Santa Paula, California.

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Phillip R. Sloan is professor emeritus in the program of liberal studies and in the graduate program in history and philosophy of science at Notre Dame. His research specializes on the history and philosophy of life science from the early modern period to contem-porary molecular biology. His current project is a multiyear study on the concept of life in modern biophysics and its implications for bioethical questions. He is also actively involved in the Notre Dame Initiative for Adult and Alternative Stem Cell Research, an inter-disciplinary working group devoted to advancing ethically sound stem cell research. He has served as a lay advisor to the National Conference of Catholic Bishop’s Committee on Science and Human Values and on numerous other scientific committees and institutes. He was editor and contributor to Controlling Our Destinies: Historical, Philosophical, Ethical and Theological Implications of the Human Genome Project and has co-authored Creating a Physical Biology: The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology.

Ryan Urbano teaches philosophy courses at the University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines, where he earned both his MA (1998) and PhD (2010) in philosophy. In 2008, he completed a joint mas-ter’s degree in applied ethics at Linkoping University, Sweden, and Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His research interests include ethics in theory and practice, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion. He has published in the Heythrop Journal and has work forthcoming in the Journal of Asian and African Studies.

Keynote speakersRev. John O’Malley, S.J.,Ph.D., University Professor,Georgetown University

Rev. Jan Michael Joncas,S.L.D., S.L.L., Associate Professor of Catholic Studiesand Theology, University ofSt. Thomas

Sr. Maureen Sullivan,O.P., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Theology, St. Anselm College

Sr. Katarina Schuth, O.S.F., Ph.D., Endowed Chair for the Social Scientific Study of Religion, University of St. Thomas

Information about conference registration and Call for Papers can be foundat www.stthomas.edu/theology/Vatican2. Paper proposals should be submit-ted by January 30, 2012, to Vatican2@stthomas.edu.

Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Theology Departmentof the University of St. Thomas.

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