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Aneta Gawkowska, Ph.D. habil., assistant professor at the Chair of Sociology and Anthropology of Custom and Law, Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw, where she teaches on sociological theories, communi- tarianism, and New Feminism. Awarded scholarships at the Institute of Hu- man Sciences in Vienna and at the University of Notre Dame (USA). Author of the book Taking Community Seriously? Communitarian Critiques of Liberalism (Warszawa 2011) and Skandal i ekstaza. Nowy Feminizm na tle koncepcji pojed- nania według Jana Pawła II [Scandal and Ecstasy. New Feminism in the Light of the Concept of Reconciliation According to John Paul II] (Warszawa 2015), and numerous articles; co-editor of the book Teorie wspólnotowe a praktyka społeczna: Obywatelskość, polityka, lokalność (Warszawa 2005). Her academic interests include: social theory, political philosophy, communitarian theories, New Feminism, and theology of the body.
John P. Hittinger, the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St.
Thomas, Houston, Texas, USA. He is the founder and director of the Pope John Paul II Forum for the Church in the Modern World. He holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and the Catholic University of America. Dr. Hit- tinger has published articles on political philosophy, just war theory, and the thought of Karol Wojtyła. He is an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Marian Machinek, Roman-Catholic priest, professor of theology at the Uni- versity of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland), head of the Department of Moral Theology and Ethics (1999–2018), editor-in-chief of the academic journal Studia Nauk Teologicznych (from 2014), member of the Board of Theological Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, chairman of the Association of Moral
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Theologians (2013–2019). Research areas: biblical ethics, selected bioethical is- sues, conscience, elements of theological anthropology, ethical issues of mar- riage and family. Author of 7 monographs, editor or co-editor of 6 collective works, author of more than 160 articles.
Marek Petro, Prof. ThDr., PhD. Born in 1967 in Slovakia. He commenced his university studies in 1986 at the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of Cyril and Methodius in Bratislava. In 1992, he completed his studies at the Greek Catholic Theological Faculty at the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice.
He went to Kraków to continue his education at the Pontificia Academia Theo- logica Cracoviensis where he received a licentiate in theology (ThLic.) in 2000.
In 2004, he received a doctorate in theology (ThDr.) and earned his doctoral degree (PhD.). In 2007, he obtained his habilitation (doc.) at the Greek Catholic Theological Faculty of Prešov University. In 2015, the president of Slovakia appointed him as University Professor of Catholic Theology. He has been a lec- turer at the Department of Systematic Theology of the Greek Catholic Theologi- cal Faculty in Prešov since 1997. Currently, he is holding a position of a full time professor specializing in moral theology and bioethics and is Head of the Department of Systematic Theology. He has written several monographs and dozens of academic papers published at home and abroad. As an investigator, he has completed nine international and sixteen national grant projects. He has participated in many domestic and foreign conferences and symposia; he has reviewed numerous monographs, dissertation and habilitation theses. In 1990, he was ordained a priest for the Greek Catholic rite. He is married and with his wife Edita has three children: Barbora (28), Damián (25), and Sebastián (18).
Krzysztof T. Wieczorek, Professor, Ph.D., director of the Unit of Logic and Methodology of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Silesia. Studied mathematics at the University of Silesia; two semesters of theology at Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, and philosophy in Cracow and Lublin. Scientific titles and degrees: 1978 Master of Science in Mathematics MSM; 1986 Doctorate degree in Philosophy; 1994 Habilitation Thesis in Philosophy; 2005 Full professor in Philosophy. Author of four books, co-author of five. Published more than 200 articles. Visiting professor at J. Palacki University, Olomouc; M. Bela University, Banska Bystrica; P. J. Safarik University, Koszyce. Research cooperation, among others, with „Die Wolfsburg” Katholische Akademie des Bistums Essen; „Reno- vabis” Solidaritatsaktion der Diözese München/Freising, Europäische Akademie für Lebensforschung, Integration und Zivilgesellschaft, Wien.
Mariusz Wojewoda, PhD., habil., Prof. UŚ at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Author of Pluralizm aksjologiczny i jego implikacje we współczesnej filozofii religii (Katowice 2010), editor of 3 volumes
Notes on Contributors 141 of articles and an author of several dozen articles published in Polish publishing houses as well as Polish and international journals. Member of the Board of the International Research Team CultMedia. Research areas: axiology, media ethics, philosophy of technology, philosophy of religion, cognitive studies.
