About the Authors

Mary Leah Friedline is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Piedmont University (Demorest, GA). She is currently serving as Chair of the Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Unit of the American Academy of Religion.Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is the inaugural William M. Suttles Professor of Religious Studies, as well as the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, at Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA). Highlighting the interconnections of religion, ethics and politics, his work explores the adoption and adaptation of classical ideas in later historical periods, especially in Early Modern Europe. His most recent book is Reach without Grasping; Anne Carson's Classical Desires (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). He is currently working on a new book project entitled The Renaissance Sappho: Fulvio Orsini's 1568 “Carmina Novem Illustrium Feminarum.”Tracey Mark Stout is Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, Chair of the Department of Christian Studies, and Associate Professor of Christian Studies at Bluefield University (Bluefield, VA). He is the author of A Fellowship of Baptism: Karl Barth's Ecclesiology in Light of His Understanding of Baptism (Pickwick, 2010).Joe Pettit is an Associate Professor in Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Morgan State University (Baltimore, MD). Beyond philosophy and religion and metaphysics, his research areas include racial justice, ethics and public policy, and religion and social justice.Benjamin J. Chicka is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy and Religion at Curry College (Milton, MA) and President of the North American Paul Tillich Society. He is the author of Playing as Others: Theology and Ethical Responsibility in Video Games (Baylor, 2021) and God the Created: Pragmatic Constructive Realism in Philosophy and Theology (SUNY, 2022). His upcoming book projects include an introduction to the new academic subfield of religion and video games (T&T Clark, 2025) and a volume on Paul Tillich and artificial intelligence which he is co-editing (Mercer, 2026).