Arthur Versluis is a professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University, where he teaches writing and literature. He is the author of numerous books and articles on traditional religion and cosmology, esoterism and mysticism, and nature and the sacred. His writings are noted for their focus on a revivification of effective Christian esoterism and also on spirituality in America, inlcuding the American Indian spiritual traditions.

Professor Versluis has contributed an essay, "Hierophanic Nature," to the World Wisdom collection of essays Seeing God Everywhere: Essays on Nature and the Sacred .