Brian E. Daley, S.J., is the Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. A graduate of Fordham University, he studied classics and philosophy at Merton College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. After theological studies in Frankfurt, Germany, and ordination to the Catholic priesthood, he returned to Oxford to do a D. Phil. in the Faculty of Theology.

He is the author of The Hope of the Early Church, On the Dormition of Mary: Early Patristic Homilies, and Gregory of Nazianzus as well as of many articles.