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Acknowledgments

This book has been in the works for some time and I have acquired many debts along the way. Thanks are due to my colleagues in the Department of Religious Studies at Holy Cross for their enthusiastic support and encouragement: Alan Avery-Peck, Bill Clark, SJ, Caner Dagli, Gary DeAngelis, Peter Fritz, John Gavin, Karen Guth, Mary Hobgood, Caroline Johnson Hodge, Alice Laffey, Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, Todd Lewis, Benny Liew, Joanne Pierce, Mary Roche, Ginny Ryan, and Mathew Schmalz. A special thanks to my colleague and co-author, Peter Fritz, who read and offered suggestions for improving several of these chapters. I’m grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with such a brilliant theologian and dear friend. Thanks also to Tom Landy, the Director of the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture, for his friendship and ongoing support of my teaching and scholarship at Holy Cross.

Thanks to my colleagues in the Class Dean’s office who with tireless support and good humor created the space for me to work on this project while welcoming the class of 2023 to Holy Cross: John Anderson, Robert Bellin, Loren Cass, Tina Chen, Francisco Gago-Jover, Lynn Levesque, Pat Kramer, Shawn Maurer, Patricia Ring, and Stanzi Royden. Thanks as well to the administration of the College of the Holy Cross, especially Philip L. Boroughs, president, and Margaret N. Freije, provost and dean, for granting me a sabbatical during the 2017-2018 academic year and a Batchelor-Ford summer fellowship in 2017 to work on the manuscript. Thanks also are due to the Committee on Faculty Scholarship for funds that paid for professional indexing.

Thanks to Charlie Collier, editor of theology and ethics at Wipf and Stock Publishers, for his enthusiasm for this project; to Jacob Martin for his keen editorial eye; to Matthew Wimer, Calvin Jaffarian, Mike Surber, and Zechariah Mickel for all the work they did to bring this manuscript to press; and to Thomas Heilke, D. Stephen Long, and Debra Murphy for welcoming this book into the Theopolitical Visions Series.

I’d like to express gratitude to my family for their interest in my scholarship, their steadfast support, and for the ways both large and small that they bring joy to my life: my parents, Tom and Judy Eggemeier, my brothers and their families, Tom, Katie, Libby, and Will Eggemeier and Chris, Sara, Jonah, and Bea Eggemeier. Finally, my deepest appreciation and most heartfelt thanks go to Alice Cheng. Along with our beloved four-legged friend, Libby, Alice has accompanied me with extraordinary patience and boundless compassion as I juggled the demands of being a class dean with several long-term scholarly projects. For this and the countless other graces she bestows upon me daily I am forever grateful.