

David is author of Teilhard de Chardin: Theology, Humanity and Cosmos (Peeters, 2005). He is Research Fellow in Theology in the University of Exeter, UK, and lives in Cambridge, UK. David has published articles and reviews on a range of topics in twenty peer-reviewed journals. Those on Teilhard include an assessment of the importance of his time, his relationship with Henri de Lubac, his evolutionary theology, his eucharistic cosmology, and his view of the Church. Upcoming work entail discussion of Teilhard’s metaphysics of substance, comparing and contrasting his thought with present-day transhumanism.



Brother Jeffrey Gros, FSC, is currently Distinguished Professor of Ecumenical and Historical Theology at Memphis Theological Seminary, and recently finished a year as Kenan Osborne visiting professor at Franciscan School, GTU Berkeley. Jeff served ten years as Director of Faith and Order for the National Council of Churches and 14 years as Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. His PhD in Theology is from Fordham University. He has been involved in numerous books, most recently that of Evangelization and Religious Freedom, 2008.




Ilia is a Senior Fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University, concentrating on various topics in science and religion. She holds a doctorate in Pharmacology from UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and a doctorate in Historical Theology from Fordham University. Having a background in Franciscan theology and science, Ilia has served on the advisory boards of Metanexus and AAAS-Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion. She is the recipient of the Templeton Course Award (2000) for her book Care for Creation. Her recent book Christ in Evolution continues to draw interest internationally.


Mary Evelyn Tucker is a Senior Lecturer in Religion and Ecology at Yale University. With John Grim, she cofounded the Forum on Religion and Ecology. Tucker and Grim also coordinated a ten conference series on World Religions and Ecology at Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religions and served as general editors of the ten volumes published from Harvard. Tucker has been a committee member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) since 1986 and is Vice-president of the American Teilhard Association since 1987.

