George F. Dole graduated from Yale with a BA, Oxford with an MA, and Harvard with a PhD. Dr. Dole, who is now professor emeritus at the Swedenborg School of Theology in Newton, Massachusetts, taught ancient languages, the Bible, and theology. He is the author of Freedom and Evil, Sorting Things Out, and A Book About Us, as well as a translator for the New Century Version of Emanuel Swedenborg's Writings. He currently resides in Bath, Maine.