Otto Hentz, S.J., was born in 1938 and entered the Society of Jesus in 1955 after graduating from the Jesuit high school in Philadelphia, St. Joseph Prep. He taught philosophy first at Georgetown University from 1962 to 1965. Following the ordinary course in theology, he was ordained into the priesthood in 1968, completed his doctorate at the University of Chicago, and then returned to Georgetown, where he has been a professor of theology since 1973 teaching Problem of God among other classes. The 2021-22 academic year was his 51st year as a professor at Georgetown. He has also served as director of Georgetown Student Volunteers in Latin America.