Bernard McGinn is the Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor emeritus of Historical Theology and the History of Christianity at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, where he taught for thirty-four years. He is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is married to Patricia Ferris McGinn, a licensed professional counselor, with whom he collaborated in writing Early Christian Mystics: The Divine Vision of the Spiritual Masters (Crossroad, 2003). He is enjoying a fruitful retirement, continuing to research and write volumes for the critically-acclaimed The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism series. Bernard McGinn is the Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor emeritus of Historical Theology and the History of Christianity at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, where he taught for thirty-four years. He is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is married to Patricia Ferris McGinn, a licensed professional counselor, with whom he collaborated in writing Early Christian Mystics: The Divine Vision of the Spiritual Masters (Crossroad, 2003). He is enjoying a fruitful retirement, continuing to research and write volumes for the critically-acclaimed The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism series.