Donald Allister is Archdeacon of Chester and has previously served in parishes in Sevenoaks, Birkenhead and Cheadle.

Andrew Atherstone is Research Fellow of the Latimer Trust. His publications include The Martyrs of Mary Tudor (2005) and Oxford’s Protestant Spy (forthcoming, 2007)

James Atkinson is Professor Emeritus of Biblical History and Literature at the University of Sheffield. He has written widely on the Reformation, including The Trial of Luther (1971); Martin Luther and the Birth of Protestantism (new edition 1982) and Martin Luther: Prophet to the Catholic Church (new edition 2004).

David Atkinson is Suffragan Bishop of Thetford in the diocese of Norwich. He is author of commentaries on Genesis 1-11, Ruth, Job and Proverbs in the Bible Speaks Today series, and co-editor of IVP’s New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology (1995).

Robert Bashford is vicar of St James’ Church, Westgate and Garlinge in Kent.

Roger Beckwith was librarian and warden of Latimer House, Oxford for more than thirty years. His books include The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church (1985); Elders in Every City: The Role and Origin of the Ordained Ministry (2003) and Calendar, Chronology and Worship (2005).

Nigel Biggar is Professor of Theology and Ethics at Trinity College, Dublin. From 2000 to 2004 he was Director of the Institute for Advanced Research in Religion, Ethics and Public Life at the University of Leeds, and previously taught at Oxford University. His many books include The Hastening That Waits: Karl Barth’s Ethics (1993), Good Life: Reflections on What we Value Today (1997) and Aiming to Kill: The Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia (2004).

Stuart Blanch (1918-1994) was Bishop of Liverpool and then Archbishop of York until his retirement in 1983.

Gerald Bray is Director of Research for the Latimer Trust and was previously Anglican Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Birmingham, Alabama. His books include Biblical Interpretation: Past and Present (1996) and Creeds, Councils and Christ (second edition, 1997). He has written three volumes in the Ancient Christian Commentary Series and is editor of The Anglican Canons 1529-1947 (1998); Tudor Church Reform (2000); and Documents of the English Reformation (second edition, 2004).

Colin Chapman was Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, Lebanon from 1999 to his retirement in 2004. Previously he was Lecturer in the Study of Religion at Trinity College, Bristol and Principal of Crowther Hall. His books include Islam and the West: Conflict, Co-existence or Conversion? (1998); Cross and Crescent: Responding to the Challenges of Islam (new edition, 2002); Whose Promised Land? (new edition, 2002) and Whose Holy City? (2004).

Ben Cooper is a curate at St Helen's Bishopsgate in the City of London. Before training for ordained ministry, he was a post-doctoral research fellow in economic theory at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is married to Catherine and has three children, Lizzy, Samuel and Naomi.

T.W. Drury (1847-1926) was Bishop of Ripon and Master of St Catharine’s College Cambridge. He had a keen interest in liturgy and his most popular work, How We Got Our Prayer Book, was first published in 1901.

Hugh Goddard has been a member of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies in Nottingham since 1984, when the teaching of Islam was established in Nottingham, and since then he has been responsible for developing the study of Islam and of the relationship between Christianity and Islam.

Tony Higton is Rector of Christ Church, Jerusalem and from 1999 to 2002 was general director of the Church’s Ministry amongst Jewish People. He was previously rector of Hawkwell near Southend for more than twenty years and founder of Action for Biblical Witness to our Nation (ABWON) campaigning for biblical doctrine and morality.

David Holloway has been vicar of Jesmond parish church (Clayton Memorial) in Newcastle-upon-Tyne since 1973. His books include The Church of England: Where is it Going? (1985); A Nation Under God (1987); Ready, Steady, Grow (1989) and Church and State in the New Millennium (2000).

Dr Henk Jochemsen is Director of the Lindeboom Institute for Medical Ethics in Ede, the Netherlands and holder of the Lindeboom Chair for Medical Ethics at the Free University of Amsterdam.

Gilbert Kirby was Principal of London Bible College from 1966 to 1980.

Christopher Lamb has many years experience of working in a multi-faith context, both with the Church Mission Society and from 1992 to 1999 as Inter-Faith Secretary for the Church of England.

Alan Langdon is a former lecturer at Moore Theological College, Sydney and an honorary canon of St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney.

Robin Leaver is Professor of Sacred Music at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, USA. He is a noted Bach scholar and hymnologist, with numerous publications to his name.

Alister McGrath is Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University and senior research fellow of Harris Manchester College. From 1995 to 2004 he was principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He is a prolific author and recent publications include The Twilight of Atheism (2004), Dawkin’s God (2004) and a three-volume Scientific Theology (2001-03)

Duncan McMann was for many years area secretary and support co-ordinator of the Bible Churchmen’s Missionary Society (now Crosslinks).

Victoria Miller is a priest of the Diocese of New York.

Gerard Moate is vicar of Dedham parish church, near Colchester.

Lawrence Osborn has a particular interest in the place of the natural world within Christian theology. His books include Angels of Light? The Challenge of the New Age (1992), Guardians of Creation: Nature in Theology and the Christian life (1993) and Restoring the Vision: The Gospel and Modern Culture (1995)

Jim Packeris Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College, Vancouver. Amongst his many best-selling books are Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God (1961), Knowing God (1973), Keep in Step with the Spirit (1984), and Among God’s Giants (1991).

Prebendary John Pearce ministered for forty years in inner-city London, in the boroughs of Hackney and Tower Hamlets. He is a former chairman of Church Society and a member of the original Reform council. He retired in 1997.

Professor Martyn Percy is principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon, near Oxford. Previously he was chaplain of Christ’s College, Cambridge and from 1997-2004 was Director of the Lincoln Theological Institute for the Study of Religion and Society. His books include Words, Wonders and Power (1996); Power and the Church (1998); The Salt of the Earth (2001); Engaging with Contemporary Culture (2005) and Clergy: The Origin of the Species (forthcoming, 2006).

Michael Poole was a lecturer in science education for twenty years and is now a Visiting Research Fellow in Science and Religion in Education in the Department of Education and Professional Studies at King’s College London. His books include Miracles: Science, the Bible and Experience (1992); Beliefs and Values in Science Education (1995); and A Guide to Science and Belief (new edition, 1997).

Marian Raikes is Dean of Women and Pastoral Studies at Oak Hill Theological College, where she teaches Spirituality. She is author of Presenting Everyone Mature: Evangelicals and Spiritual Growth (Orthos, 2004), a contributor to The IVP Women’s Bible Commentary (IVP, 2002), and British editor of Stirrings of the Soul: Evangelicals and the New Spirituality (Good Book Co, 2003).

John Root has been vicar of St James Alperton, Wembley since 1979, situated in the most ethnically mixed borough in London. Previously he was vice-principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge.

Nigel Scotland is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Gloucestershire. His books include John Bird Sumner: Evangelical Archbishop (1995), Sectarian Religion in Contemporary Britain (2000), Evangelical Anglicans in a Revolutionary Age 1789-1901 (2003), and The Baker Pocket Guide to new Religions (2006).

Mark Thompson is Academic Dean and Lecturer in Theology at Moore College in Sydney. He is married to Kathryn and they have four young daughters.

Peter Toon is Rector of Christ Church, Biddulph Moor in the Diocese of Lichfield and President of the Prayer Book Society of the USA. His many books include God’s Statesman: The Life and Work of John Owen (1972), Evangelical theology 1833-1856: A Response to Tractarianism (1979), The End of Liberal Theology: Contemporary Challenges to Evangelical Orthodoxy (1995), Puritans, the Millennium and the Future of Israel (new edition, 2002), and Common Worship Considered (2003)

Max Warren (1904-1979) was Vicar of Holy Trinity Cambridge, general secretary of the Church Missionary Society, and sub-dean of Westminster Abbey.

Gordon Wenham was Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Gloucestershire from 1995 to 2005, and now lectures at Trinity College, Bristol. His books include Story as Torah: Reading the Old Testament Ethically (2000), Exploring the Old Testament: the Pentateuch (2003) and major commentaries on Genesis 1-15 and Genesis 16-50 in the Word Biblical Commentary series.

Steve Wilcockson is vicar of St Paul’s Howell Hill, in Surrey.

Garry Williams lectures in church history and doctrine at Oak Hill theological college in north London. His doctoral research at Oxford University was on Hugo Grotius’ doctrine of the atonement.

Tom Wright is Bishop of Durham and author of many books, including most recently What Saint Paul Really Said (2003), Scripture and the Authority of God (2005), Evil and the Justice of God (2006) and Simply Christianity (2006)