James Patrick is a theologian, teacher, and sometime apologist. He received his doctorate in theology from Trinity College in Toronto and taught and served in administrative positions at the University of Tennessee and the University of Dallas before founding in 1981 the College of Saint Thomas More in Fort Worth, Texas. His writings include Architecture in Tennessee: 1768-1897, The Magdalen Metaphysicals: Idealism and Orthodoxy at Oxford, 1900-1945, The Beginning of Collegiate Education west of the Appalachians, and Andrew of Bethsaida and the Johannine Circle. Most recently he was author of the biographical chapter, "The Oxford Man," in the new edition of R. G. Collingwood's Autobiography.