The Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at the Duke University Divinity School, Stanley M. Hauerwas is regarded as one of America’s foremost intellectual provocateurs. His work cuts across disciplinary lines as he engages in conversation with systematic theology, philosophical theology, political theory, philosophy of social science, and medical ethics. It is primarily concerned with how Christians have understood and should understand the relationship between Christ and the moral life. He is widely respected as a Christian pacifist who has called into question modern philosophical foundations for the theory of just war. A theology of disability, which emphasizes the inherent value of the cognitively impaired as well as their importance to the life and faithfulness of the church, has been an important and influential strand in his writing for the past thirty-five years. A graduate of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, Dr. Hauerwas earned a bachelor of divinity degree cum laude from Yale Divinity School, winning the Tew and Hooker prizes, then took a Ph.D. in philosophy at Yale in 1968. He began his teaching career at Augusta College in Rock Island, Illinois, and joined the theology faculty of the University of Notre Dame in 1970 as an assistant professor. Promoted to full professor in 1979, he moved to Duke Divinity School as a professor of theological ethics in 1984 and was named to his present chair a decade later. Dr. Hauerwas also has held an appointment in the Duke Law School since 1988. He has been a senior research fellow at the Kennedy Center for Education at Georgetown University and held visiting appointments as a professor of medical ethics at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston, a professor of Christian ethics at the University of San Francisco, and a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. The Gifford Lecturer at St. Andrews University in 2001, the same year he won the Duke University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award, he has delivered some 110 invited lectures throughout North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He has been the recipient of fellowships and grants awarded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Theological School, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism and American Culture, the Lilly Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Henry Luce Foundation. Dr. Hauerwas is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The editor (with Alasdair MacIntyre) of the University of Notre Dame Press series Revisions, he also serves as an associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics and of the Journal of Religious Ethics and as a member of the editorial board of Modern Theology. He is the author of more than four hundred articles published in scholarly journals, the editor or co-editor of ten books, including Responsibility for Devalued Persons (1982) and (with Samuel Wells) The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics (2004), the co-author of six volumes, and the author of twenty-five other books, including A Community of Character: Toward A Constructive Christian Social Ethic (1981), Suffering Presence: Theological Reflections on Medicine, the Mentally Handicapped, and the Church (1985), With the Grain of the Universe: The Church’s Witness and Natural Theology, which was named Book of the Year in Theology and Ethics by Christianity Today in 2002, and most recently, Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence (2004), Disrupting Time: Sermons, Prayers, and Sundries (2004), Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words (2004), Matthew: A Theological Commentary (2006), and The State of the University: Academic Knowledges and the Knowledge of God, which will be published next month by Blackwell. Dr. Hauerwas is currently working on two books: Christianity and Radical Democracy (with Romand Coles) and Providence and the Mentally Disabled (with Hans Reinders).