The Authors: Pius Ojara, SJ, Ph.D., is a Jesuit and student of theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, California. He taught from 1999-2003 at The Jesuit School of Philosophy and Humanities, Arrupe College, Harare, Zimbabwe. He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2003 from the University of Zimbabwe. He specialized in the Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel in relation to the human condition. Currently he is working on a book entitled Towards Greater Freedom With Human Bodiliness.Patrick Madigan received his doctorate in philosophy from Tulane University in 1972. He is currently lecturer in the history of philosophy at Arrupe College in Harare, Zimbabwe. Patrick Madigan is the author of several books. He recently published The Completion of the Project of the West and Its Romantic Sequel: Essays in the History of Western Culture (2003).

• Contents: The Emergence of the Need for Hope and for Conversion in Gabriel Marcel – The Origins and Drama of Human Restlessness – A Pathway of Human Conversion – The Priority of Being over Having – Human Religious Consciousness – Unexpected Assistance by Romantic Art to the Christian Revolution in René Girard – Girard and Bakhtin – Conversion from Selfishness to Self-Love: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.