Bernard J VerkampBERNARD J. VERKAMP is emeritus professor of philosophy and religious studies at Vincennes University in Vincennes, IN. After four years of studying theology under Karl Rahner at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and another four years in pursuit f a Ph.D. at the University of Saint Louis, he taught philosophy, ethics, and comparative religion classes at Vincennes University and was a visiting professor of medieval Christian theology at Notre Dame during the summer of 1975. During subsequent years of teaching some eight thousand students, he authored six scholarly books (The Indifferent Mean, The Moral Treatment of Returning Warriors, The Evolution of Religion, The Senses of Mystery, The Sense of Wonder, and The Encyclopedia of Philosophers on Religion, and multiple articles in the Journal of Religion, the Journal of Philosophy and Theology, the International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, Theological Studies, Faith and Philosophy, Church History, Review for Religious, and the American Journal of Theology & Philosophy, in addition to periodic essays and reviews in America, Thought, Review for Metaphysics, Tecumseh Review, and Commonweal. Read More Read Less