Dr. Paul Thigpen is a bestselling Catholic author, editor, and historian whose books have sold widely across the English-speaking Catholic world. A former Protestant pastor who entered the Catholic Church in 1993, he earned his Ph.D. in historical theology from Emory University and has served as a professor, magazine editor, and editor at TAN Books. Among his dozens of titles are the perennial bestseller Manual for Spiritual Warfare and numerous works of apologetics, devotion, and history.
For Ascension, he was one of the co-authors of the New York Times bestselling A Guide to the Passion: 100 Questions About The Passion of The Christ, the million-selling companion to the 2004 film that helped countless viewers understand the biblical and Catholic roots of what they saw on screen.