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About the Authors

Charles Taliaferro, Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College, is the author of

Consciousness and the Mind of God (Cambridge University Press), Evidence and Faith:

Philosophy and Religion Since the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press),

Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (Blackwell), Dialogues About God (Rowman and

Littlefield), Philosophy of Religion: A Beginner’s Guide (OneWorld Press) and the

co-author of Naturalism (Eerdmans). He is the co-editor of the first edition of the

Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Religion and the second edition, Philosophy of

Religion Reader (Blackwell), Cambridge Platonist Spirituality (Paulist Press), and the

Cambridge Companion to Christian Philosophical Theology (Cambridge University

Press). He was the philosophy of religion area editor of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy,

second edition (Macmillan) and is on the editorial board of Religious Studies, Sophia,

Blackwell’s Philosophy Compass, American Philosophical Quarterly, and Ars Disputandi.

Taliaferro has lectured at Oxford, Cambridge, NYU, Columbia, Princeton, St. Andrews

University (Scotland) and elsewhere.

Elsa J. Marty, a former student of Charles Taliaferro, is currently a graduate student in

theology at University of Chicago Divinity School and a candidate for ordination in the

Lutheran Church (ELCA). She has spent a significant amount of time in India studying

interfaith relations. Her interests include theological anthropology and social ethics.

ADDENDUM to the entry FRIENDSHIP: Perhaps one of the more challenging ways

of beginning and sustaining a friendship is through the co-authoring and co-editing of a

dictionary, but this can be done with brilliant results as part of the cultivation of friendship,

especially when helped out with the occasional cookie.

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