Evelyn Eaton Whitehead is a developmental psychologist (PhD, University of Chicago) and James Whitehead is a Catholic theologian and historian of religion (PhD, Harvard University). Married since 1970, the Whiteheads have served on the theology faculty at Notre Dame University and for forty-five years have been professors at the Institute of Pastoral Studies, Loyola University, Chicago. During that time they published twenty books, a number of which have been translated into five foreign languages.