Paul A. Soukup, S. J., has explored the connections between communication and theology since 1982. His publications include Communication and Theology (1983); Christian Communication: A Bibliographical Survey (1989); Media, Culture, and Catholicism (1996); Mass Media and the Moral Imagination with Philip J. Rossi (1994) and Fidelity and Translation: Communicating the Bible in New Media with Robert Hodgson (1999). This latter publication grows out of his work on the American Bible Society’s New Media Bible (www.newmediabible.org). In addition, he and Thomas J. Farrell have edited four volumes of the collected works of Walter J. Ong, S. J., Faith and Contexts (1992–99). These volumes have led him to examine more closely how orality–literacy studies can contribute to an understanding of theological expression. More recently, he has edited a collection of essays applying Ong’s thought, Of Ong & Media Ecology: Essays in Communication, Composition, and Literary Studies (2012). A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D., 1985), Soukup teaches in the Communication Department at Santa Clara University.
