Mel Gibson's Passion And Philosophy The Cross, the Questions, the Controversy

David Baggett is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at King's College, Pennsylvania. He is co-editor of Harry Potter and Philosophy (with Shawn E. Klein, 2004) in Open Court's Popular Culture and Philosophy series, and is currently working on a book entitled Vanquishing Euthyphro with Jerry Walls. Gregory Bassham is Director of the Center for Ethics and Public Life and Chair of the Philosophy Department at King's College, Pennsylvania. A frequent contributor to volumes in Open Court's Popular Culture and Philosophy series, he is the co-editor of The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy (2003), the author of Original Intent and the Constitution: A Philosophical Study (1992), and co-author of Critical Thinking: A Student's Introduction (second edition, 2005). Eric Bronson heads the Philosophy and History Department at Berkeley College in New York City. He edited Baseball and Philosophy (2004) and co-edited The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy (2003), Volumes 6 and 5 in Open Court's Popular Culture and Philosophy series. J. Angelo Corlett is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at San Diego State University. He is the author of several books, including Analyzing Social Knowledge (1996), Responsibility and Punishment (2001), Race, Racism, and Reparations (2003), Terrorism: A Philosophical Analysis (2003), Ethical Dimensions of Law (2005), and Interpreting Plato's Dialogues (2005). He is editor of Equality and Liberty: Analyzing Rawls and Nozick (1990) and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Ethics. Cynthia A. Freeland is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, University of Houston. She was formerly the director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Houston. Her publications include But Is It Art? (2001), "Penetrating Keanu," in William Irwin, ed., The Matrix and Philosophy (2002), The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror (1999), Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle (1998), "The Sublime in Cinema," in Carl Plantinga and Greg Smith, eds., Passionate Views (1999), and Philosophy and Film (1995), which she co-edited with Thomas E. Wartenberg. Jorge J.E. Gracia holds the Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy and is State University of New York Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo. Among the thirty-five books he has published are A Theory of Textuality (1995), Texts (1996), Haw Can We Know What God Means? (2001), Old Wine in New Skins (2003), and (co-editor with Carolyn Korsmeyer and Rodolphe Gasche) Literary Philosophers: Borges, Calvino, Eco (2002). William Irwin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at King's College, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Intentionalist Interpretation (1999) and several articles in aesthetics, and editor of The Matrix and Philosophy (2002), The Simpsons and Philosophy (2001), and Seinfeld and Philosophy (2000). He is editor of the Open Court Philosophy and Popular Culture series. Paul Kurtz is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at State University at Buffalo. He is Editor-in-Chief of Free Inquiry magazine and Chairman of the Center for Inquiry. Among the forty-five books that he has written or edited are Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm (2001), Embracing the Power of Humanism (2000), and The Courage to Become (1997). Anna Lannstrom is Assistant Professor of philosophy at Stonehill College. Her recent and forthcoming publications include: "Am I My Brother's Keeper? An Aristotelian Take on Responsibility for Others," Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion 26 (2005), "The Matrix and Vedanta: Journeying from the Unreal to the Real," in William Irwin, ed., More Matrix and Philosophy (2005), and (as editor) The Stranger's Religion: Fascination and Fear, Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion 25 (2004) and in Promise and Peril: The Paradox of Religion as Resource and Threat, in Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion 24 (2003). James Lawler is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University at Buffalo. He is the author of The Existentialist Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre (1976), and IQ, Heritability, and Racism (1978), and the editor of Dialectics of the U.S. Constitution: Selected Writings of Mitchell Franklin (2000). He is currently writing a history of early modern philosophy, Matter and Spirit: the Battle of Metaphysics in Early Modern Philosophy before Kant. He primarily teaches courses about and writes on Kant, Hegel, and Marx. Gareth B. Matthews is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is the author of Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes (1992), Socratic Perplexity and the Nature of Philosophy (1999), and Augustine (forthcoming). Ralph McInerny is Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of two dozen books and many articles of philosophy, as well as numerous works of fiction, including novels and short stories, and has authored or edited many other books, some dealing with religious topics. Among his books are Art and Prudence (1988), The Question of Christian Ethics (1993), The God of Philosophers (1994), Ethica Thomistica (1997), and What Went Wrong with Vatican II (1998). Paul K. Moser is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago. He is the author of Philosophy after Objectivity (1993), Knowledge and Evidence (1989), and "Jesus and Philosophy," in Faith and Philosophy (forthcoming). He is also co-editor of Divine Hiddenness (2002), and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology (2002) and Jesus and Philosophy: New Essays (forthcoming). Bruce R. Reichenbach is Professor of Philosophy at Augsburg College. He has written over fifty articles and book chapters on diverse topics in philosophy of religion, ethics, theology, and religion. His most recent books are Introduction to Critical Thinking (2001), On Behalf of God: A Christian Ethic for Biology (1995), and Reason and Religious Belief (third edition, 2003), co-authored with Michael Peterson, William Hasker, and David Basinger. Jonathan J. Sanford is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville. His publications include Categories: Historical and Systematic Essays (as co-editor and co-contributor, 2004), and "Scheler versus Scheler: The Case for a Better Ontology of the Person," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming). He has contributed several articles to volumes in Open Court's Popular Culture and Philosophy series. Charles Taliaferro is Professor of Philosophy at St. Olaf College. He is the author of Consciousness and the Mind of God (1994) and Evidence and Faith (2005) and Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (1998). He is co-author of three other volumes, including the Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Religion (1997). Jerry L. Walls is Professor of Philosophy at Asbury Theological Seminary. Among his books are Hell: The Logic of Damnation (1992), Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy (2002), and most recently, with Joe Dongell, Why I Am Not a Calvinist (2004). Thomas E. Wartenberg is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Mount Holyoke College where he also teaches in the Film Studies Program. He is the author of Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism (1999), editor of The Nature of Art (2001), co-editor (with Cynthia Freeland) of Philosophy and Film (1995), and co-editor (with Angela Curran) of The Philosophy of Film: Introductory Text and Readings (2005). He is the film editor of Philosophy Now. Dallas Willard is Professor at the School of Philosophy of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His publications include translations of Edmund Husserl, and the following books in the philosophy of religion: Renovation of the Heart (2002), The Divine Conspiracy (1998), The Spirit of the Disciplines (1988), and Hearing God (1984, 1993, 1999). His Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge (1984) is being revised for a second edition. Mark A. Wrathall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. He has edited Religion After Metaphysics (2003) and co-edited The Blackwell Companion to Heidegger (2004), Heidegger Re-examined (2002), Heidegger, Authenticity, and Modernity (2000), Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science (2000), and Appropriating Heidegger (2000).Gracia, Jorge J. E. is the author of 'Mel Gibson's Passion And Philosophy The Cross, the Questions, the Controversy', published 2004 under ISBN 9780812695717 and ISBN 0812695712.