Eric DeVilliers is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Notre Dame and incoming Postdoctoral Fellow in Catholic Studies at the Lumen Christi Institute. Dr. DeVilliers (PhD, Notre Dame, 2024) is a Catholic theologian engaged in the comparative study of early Christianity and Islam. His book manuscript explores the meaning and development of the doctrine of the vision of God (visio beatifica). Working in Arabic, Coptic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, and Turkish, DeVilliers draws on Christian patristic theology, classical Islamic theology, and medieval scholastic thought. His research demonstrates that there is one continuous discourse from Late Antiquity into early Islam in which the Qur’an accepts and reworks several Christian interpretive themes.