Acknowledgments

This book has been a long time in the making. Along the way, family members, friends, and colleagues have supported us with love, patience, insights, and suggestions. We also are grateful to the people who kindly granted us interviews.

We have also benefited immensely from the hard work and good suggestions of colleagues across the country. In particular, we would like to thank:

Jeanine Viau, University of Central Florida

Jason Sprague, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Sharon Coggan, University of Colorado-Denver

T. Christopher Hoklotubbe, Cornell College

Andrew Christian van Gorder, Relations, Baylor University

Mordechai Inbari, University of North Carolina-Pembroke

Kenneth Claus, Miami Dade College

Donald Stikeleather, Marian University

Kenneth Bass, Central Texas College

Robert Pennington, Mount St. Joseph University

Barbara Hornum, Drexel University

Joseph S. Wadas, Georgia Southern University

We extend our special thanks to Yaroslav Komarovski of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who so generously provided valuable suggestions, and to Ravi Gupta of Utah State University, who responded so very helpfully to our request for expert advice.

We would also like to acknowledge the suggestions of reviewers for the first, second, and third editions, which continued to inform our work on this new edition:

Asad Q. Ahmed, Washington University in St. Louis

Kenneth Atkinson, University of Northern Iowa

Kenneth Bass, Central Texas College

John Baumann, University of Oregon

Todd Μ. Brenneman, University of Central Florida

Robert E. Brown, James Madison University

David Bush, Shasta College

Dexter E. Callender, Jr., University of Miami

Kenneth Claus, Miami Dade College-Kendall Campus

John L. Crow, Florida State University

Philip R. Drey, Kirkwood Community College-Cedar Rapids

James Ford, Rogers State University

Matthew Hallgarth, Tarleton State University

Kathleen Hladky, Florida State University

T. Christopher Hoklotubbe, Cornell College

Barbara Hornum, Drexel University

Mordechai Inbari, University of North Carolina-Pembroke

Jon Inglett, Oklahoma City Community College

Maria Jaoudi, California State University-Sacramento

Jeffrey Kaplan, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Brad Karelins, Saddleback College

Kate S. Kelley, University of Missouri-Columbia

Erik Larson, Florida International University

Mirna Lattouf, Arizona State University

Peter David Lee, Columbia College

Iain S. MacLean, James Madison University

Wade Maki, University of Toledo

Isabel Mukonyora, Western Kentucky University

Benjamin Murphy, Florida State University-Panama City

Samuel Murrell, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Rachel Nabulsi, Georgia Gwinnett College

Tom Norris, Florida International University

Robert Y. Owusu, Clark Atlanta University

Robert Pennington, Mount St. Joseph University

Arlette Poland, College of the Desert

Marialuce Ronconi, Marist College

John Sanders, Hendrix College

Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida

Paul G. Schneider, University of South Florida

Joshua Shelly, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

Adam Herbert Smith, McPherson College

Theresa S.

Glenn Snyder, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Phillip Spivey, University of Central Arkansas

Donald Stikeleather, Marian University

Dennis P. Tishken, Eastern Florida State College

Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University

Andrew Christian van Gorder, Baylor University

Joseph S. Wadas, Georgia Southern University

James W. Ward, James Madison University

Keith Welsh, Webster University

Mlen-Too Wesley, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona

David Wisdo, Columbus State University

James A. Zeller, San Joaquin Delta College

Finally, we owe a debt of gratitude to the editorial staff at Oxford University Press. Our thanks go to Andy Blitzer, Acquisitions Editor for Philosophy and Religion, who has overseen development of the Fourth Edition, with assistance from Leslie Anglin, Rachel Boland, Jaime Burns, and Peter Lacey. We are veiy grateful for their diligent work. The previous editions were overseen by then Executive Editor Robert Miller, who originally invited us to publish with Oxford and who put us in the excellent care of Senior Development Editor Meg Botteon, whose professionalism and skill were an essential guiding force. Our thanks also go to Brad Ran for managing the final stages of the book’s production.