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D. Lyle Dabney teaches Protestant systematic theology at historically Roman Catholic Marquette University in Milwaukee. He joined the theology faculty in 1994 and was promoted to associate professor in 2001. A graduate of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, he earned a master's degree at Fuller Theological Seminary and a doctorate in theology at Eberhard-Karls Universiät in Tübingen, Germany in 1989. He was a member of the adjunct faculty at Perkins Theological Seminary at Southern Methodist University before accepting his initial appointment at Marquette. Dr. Dabney also has taught at Biblijsko Toloski Instituite in Osijek, Yugoslavia. The author of a number of articles on pneumatology published in scholarly journals and a work in German on the Holy Spirit, Die Kenosis des Geistes: Kontinuität zwischen Schöpfung und Erlösung in Werk des Heiligen Geistes (1997), he served as translator and editor of the English-language edition of Jürgen Moltmann's Is There Life after Death? (1998) and, most recently, as editor (with Bradford Hinze) of Advents of the Spirit: Introduction to the Current Study of Pneumatology, which was published by Marquette University Press in 2001. A series of lectures he delivered in Canberra, Australia, along with responses from Australian theologians, has been published in a volume edited by Gordon Preece and Stephen Pikard, Starting with the Spirit: The Task of Theology Today II (Australian Theological Form Press, 2001). Dr. Dabney is currently working on two scholarly projects-one, tentatively entitled, "We Believe in the Holy Spirit: An Introduction to Pneumatology as a Field of Discourse," offers a developed account of his argument that a theology of the third person of the Trinity is the most appropriate form of theological discourse today; the other argues that the focus of such discourse is theological anthropology.