Born: 19-Aug-1937
Birthplace: Yonkers, NY

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Theologian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Presence of God

Wife: Patricia Ferris (two sons)
Son: Daniel (b. 1972)
Son: John (b. 1974)

    University: BA, St. Joseph's Seminary, Yonkers, NY (1959)
    Theological: STL, Pontifical Gregorian University (1963)
    University: PhD History of Ideas, Brandeis University (1970)
    President: Historical Theology, University of Chicago (1969-2003)

Author of books:
The Golden Chain: A Study in the Theological Anthropology of Isaac of Stella (1972, religion)
Three Treatises on Man: A Cistercian Anthropology (1977, religion)
Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages (1979, religion)
The Foundations of Mysticism: Origins to the Fifth Century (1991, religion)
Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil (1994, religion)
The Growth of Mysticism: Gregory the Great through the 12th Century (1994, religion)
The Flowering of Mysticism: Men and Women in the New Mysticism, 1200-1350 (1998, religion)
The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart: The Man from Whom God Hid Nothing (2001, religion)
The Harvest of Mysticism in Medieval Germany (2005, religion)
The Varieties of Vernacular Mysticism, 1350-1550 (2012, religion)

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