Douglas F. Ottati is an elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Craig Family Distinguished Professor in Reformed Theology and Justice Ministry at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. He is the author of "Meaning and Method in H. Richard Niebuhr's Theology", "Jesus Christ and Christian Vision", "Reforming Protestantism: Christian Commitment in Today's World", and "Hopeful Realism: Reclaiming the Poetry of Theology".He is also a general editor of the Library of Theological Ethics series.