Margaret M. Turek, S.T.D., is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Chair of the Systematic Theology Department at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University, Menlo Park, California. She has served as a seminary professor for ten years. Before joining the faculty at St. Patrick’s Seminary, she taught systematic theology at the University of Dallas (Fall 1994 – Spring 2001). Dr. Turek received her doctorate from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. She wrote a doctoral dissertation under the direction of Christoph Cardinal Schoenborn, O.P., entitled Towards a Theology of God the Father: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theodramatic Approach (published by Peter Lang in 2001).