Matthew Levering holds the James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary. He is the author or co-author of forty books including such works as Scripture and Metaphysics, Participatory Biblical Exegesis, Biblical Natural Law, Proofs of God, Aquinas’s Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance, and Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? He is currently at work on a multi-volume quasi-dogmatics, whose first seven volumes have appeared (most recently Engaging the Doctrine of the Church). He is the editor or co-editor of over thirty books, including such works as The Oxford Handbook of Deification and The Reception of Vatican II. He is the translator of Gilles Emery, O.P.’s The Trinity. He is co-editor of two quarterly journals, Nova et Vetera and the International Journal of Systematic Theology, and he is the Senior Editor of The New Ressourcement. He is past president of the Academy of Catholic Theology.