RAMON MARTINEZ DE PISON is a professor in the Faculty of Theology at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. He holds a PhD in theology and a doctorate in psychology. He has published several books as well as scholarly articles in the fields of Christian anthropology, Death and the Afterlife, and Shame and Suicide. Martínez de Pisón has a particular interest in the relationship between human development and the experience of God. He is a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the religious congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.