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Bernard McGinn is the Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor emeritus at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, where he taught for thirty-four years. The author of the nine-volume The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism (1991–2021), he has written extensively on the history of theology, especially the history of mysticism and spirituality. A former President of the Medieval Academy of America, he is a Fellow of both the Medieval Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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