Thomas Luckmann was a prominent sociologist specializing in the sociology of communication, sociology of knowledge, and sociology of religion.

As a philosopher, ethicist, and scholar of religion, Hans Jonas has in many ways defined what it means to be a part of the intellectually dynamic community that formed the basis of the New School.

To avoid misunderstanding, I should note at once that my point of view is here not that of the mere logic of ideas and doctrines, but that of the concrete logic of the events of history.

The advocatus diaboli, as you know, is not a lawyer employed by the Prince of Darkness. He is a faithful member of the Church whose duty it is, when it is proposed to canonize a saint, to search out all the opposing considerations and to state them as cogently as possible.