Michel Despland is Professor of Religion at Concordia University.Gérard Vallée is professor emeritus of religious studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada). He studied in Québec and Germany, and worked in the fields of history of Christianity and philosophy of religion. He has also taught in Vietnam, India, and Nigeria. His publications include A Study in Anti-Gnostic Polemics (WLU Press, 1981), The Spinoza Conversations between Lessing and Jacobi (1988), The Shaping of Christianity 100-800 (1999), and Soundings in G.E. Lessing's Philosophy of Religion (2000). He has been involved in the editing of Nightingale's Collected Works since 1998.

``ã la lecture, les collaborations, dans leur ensemble, constituent de solides contributions, soit comme introduction, synthã¨se ou examen spã©cifique....[L]e lecteur y trouvera matiã¨re stimulante ã l'ã©largissement de ses connaissances et ã la rã©flexion critique.'' -- Recensions

Michel Despland is Professor of Religion at Concordia University.Gérard Vallée is professor emeritus of religious studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada). He studied in Québec and Germany, and worked in the fields of history of Christianity and philosophy of religion. He has also taught in Vietnam, India, and Nigeria. His publications include A Study in Anti-Gnostic Polemics (WLU Press, 1981), The Spinoza Conversations between Lessing and Jacobi (1988), The Shaping of Christianity 100-800 (1999), and Soundings in G.E. Lessing's Philosophy of Religion (2000). He has been involved in the editing of Nightingale's Collected Works since 1998.

``ã la lecture, les collaborations, dans leur ensemble, constituent de solides contributions, soit comme introduction, synthã¨se ou examen spã©cifique....[L]e lecteur y trouvera matiã¨re stimulante ã l'ã©largissement de ses connaissances et ã la rã©flexion critique.'' -- Recensions