John P. Keenan is Professor Emeritus at Middlebury College in Vermont. Trained in both Christian theology and Buddhist studies, he has developed a Mahayana theology that applies the insights of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy to Christian scripture and theology. His book The Meaning of Christ: A Mahayana Theology received the first Frederick J. Streng Book Award in Buddhist-Christian Studies. He has also published Mahayana readings of the Gospel of Mark and the Letter of James, as well as translations and studies of Chinese Buddhist texts and, in 2009, Grounding our Faith in a Pluralist World - with a Little Help from Nagarjuna. Linda Klepinger Keenan, Ph.D.

, has studied the literary transmission of legends about the Japanese mountain ascetic En no Gyoja; translated from the Japanese Beyond Loyalty: The Story of a Kibei, the autobiography of Buddhologist Minoru Kiyota; and co-edited with Harold Kasimow and John P. Keenan Beside Still Waters: Jews, Christians, and the Way of the Buddha, 2004 recipient of the Frederick J. Streng Award in Buddhist-Christian Studies.