Rachel M. Coleman is an associate professor of theology and the director of the Honors Program at Assumption University in Worcester, MA. She writes and works primarily in metaphysics and concentrates on the work of the German philosopher Ferdinand Ulrich, but she also comments on issues of science and bioethics, and gender. Her book is Matter as an Image of the Good: Ferdinand Ulrich's Metaphysics of Creation, and she has published articles in The New Ressourcement, Church Life Journal, and Fairer Disputations.