Believing Scholars: Ten Catholic Intellectuals, deftly edited by James L. Heft (President and Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies and University Professor of Faith and Culture and Chancellor, University of Dayton) is a scholarly collection of works depicting the connections of private lives of faith and public lives as teachers, students, and intellectuals told from the perspective of leading public figures. Including writings from Marcia Colish, Jill Ker Conway, Mary Douglas, Avery Cardinal Dulles, Mary Ann Glendon, Gustavo Guterrez, Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, Peter Steinfels, Charles Taylor and David Tracy, Believing Scholars is an informed and informative look into modern Catholic thought, and is highly recommended to Catholic scholars, theologians, clergy and laymen.