SECOND EDITION OF THE RATZINGER PRIZE

Rémi Brague was born 1947, he is married and father of four children. He is professor emeritus of Medieval and Arabic philosophy at the University Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) and professor of philosophy of the European religions at the Ludwig- Maximilian University in Munich. He studied philosophy and classical languages at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and later Hebrew and Arabic. He taught philosophy for two years at the University of Burgundy (Dijon), and at the Sorbonne for twenty years. He has taught in Munich since 2002. He has been a visiting professor in Penn State, Boston (B.U. and B.C.), Lausanne, Milan, Pamplona. Rémi Brague has published “The future of the West” (Milan, 1998, 2005), “The wisdom of the world” (Soveria Mannelli, 2005), the On the God of the Christians (Milan, 2009), “Anchors in the sky” (Milan, 2012). Rémi Brague is a member of the Institut de France (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques).

Brian E. Daley, S.J., is a Theology Professor at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA), dedicated to “Catherine F. Huisking”. He graduate in 1961 at the Fordham University (New York), he studied ancient history and philosophy at Merton College, Oxford, from 1961 to 1964. Then he entered the Society of Jesus. After theological studies in Frankfurt, Germany, where he was ordained priest on 25^th July 1970, he came back to Oxford to attend a Ph.D. course at the Faculty of Theology, from 1972 to 1978. He then taught historical theology for eighteen years at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before moving to Notre Dame in 1996. He wrote “The Hope of the Early Church” (Cambridge, 1991; Hendrickson, 2002); “On the Dormition of Mary: Early Patristic Homilies (St. Vladimir’s, 1998), and “Gregory of Nazianzus” (Routledge, 2006), as well as many articles. He also translated “Cosmic Liturgy. The Universe according to Maximus the Confessor” by Hans Urs von Balthasar, (Ignatius, 2003). Fr. Daley is the executive secretary of the Catholic-Orthodox Consultation for North America.