John J. Burkhard, O.F.M., Conv., Ph.D., is a teacher for the Education for Parish Service Program of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., and a professor of systematics at Washington Theological Union. He is the translator of Imagining the Catholic Church: Structured Communion in the Spirit written by Ghislain Lafont, and is a contributor to the journals New Theology Review and Workship published by Liturgical Press.