Dr. Joseph K. Gordon is Professor of Theology at Johnson University in Knoxville, Tennessee. His writing and research focus primarily on Christian Scripture in theological perspective, scriptural hermeneutics, theological anthropology, and theological perspectives on animals and ecology. He is the author of Divine Scripture in Human Understanding (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019, 2022) and is writing The Cascade Companion to Bernard Lonergan (Cascade, forthcoming) and editing Critical Realism and Christian Scripture (Marquette University Press) in his role as team leader for Critical-Realist Hermeneutics in the International Institute for Method in Theology. He has published essays, articles, and chapters in Theological Studies, Nova et Vetera, Church Life Journal, The Stone-Campbell Journal, Method: A Journal of Lonergan Studies, The Lonergan Review and volumes published by University of Notre Dame Press, Marquette University Press, and Pickwick. A certified Master Herpetologist through the Amphibian Foundation, he is currently completing the Southern Appalachian Naturalist Certification at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont. Follow him on Twitter (@josephkgordon) and instagram (@joseph.k.gordon and, for snakes and salamanders, @kimberlinheightscreatures).