Dr María Pilar Aquino is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at San Diego University, USA. She studied at the Instituto Teológico de Estudios Superiores (ITES, Theological Institute of Superior Studies) of México City, accredited by the Pontifical Catholic University do Río Grande do Sul, Brazil (TheolBA and TheolLic). She obstained the doctorate in theology at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain. She joined the University of San Diego in 1993. Her primary areas of teaching and research are liberation theologies, social ethics, and feminist theologies, with special interests in intercultural approaches, conflict transformation, and religious peacebuilding studies. Aquino’s research and scholarly works are infused by concerns about the function of religions and theologies in societal systems and human relationships, and about their implications for social justice and constructive change. She is the author of more than
fifty major book and journal articles.

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Dr Sharon A. Bong is Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Monash University, Selangor, Malaysia. Her qualifications are: PhD in Religious Studies and MA in Women in Religion (with distinction) from Lancaster University in the UK, and MA in English Literature from the University of Malaya, Malaysia. Her on-going research interests include epistemologies from a feminist point of view; women’s human rights and approaches to sexuality in religions.
Dr Bong wrote The Tension Between Women’s Rights and Religions: The Case of Malaysia (Edwin Mellen Press, New York 2006). With Pushpa Joseph she edited Re-imagining Marriage and Family in Asia: Asian Christian Women’s Perspectives (Strategic information and Research Development Centre, Petaling Jaya 2008).

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Author of numerous articles including the classic ‘Women Ministers in the Catholic Church?’ (1968) and ‘The Creation of Womanhood: a Hierarchical Construction’ (2001). Van Eyden trained generations of theologians in the Netherlands, leading to relevant doctoral theses. One remarkable project studied in detail how the reports by the Pontifical Commission On Women in Society and in the Church were derailed and suppressed by Vatican interference (1974-1976). Read a summary of the research here.

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Professor Mary Grey is an ecofeminist liberation theologian, until recently D.J.James Professor of Pastoral Theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter and formerly Professor of Contemporary Theology at the University of Southampton, based at La Sainte Union (1993-7). Before that she was Professor of Feminism and Christianity at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her recent writing includes: Introducing Feminist Images of God (London: Continuum 2001), Sacred Longings: Ecofeminist Theology and Globalisation (London: SCM 2003, Fortress 2004), The Unheard Scream – the Struggles of Dalit Women in India (New Delhi 2004), Pursuing the Dream – a Jewish-Christian Conversation, with Rabbi Dan Cohn Sherbok (Darton, Longman and Todd 2005). For 10 years she was editor of the journal Ecotheology.

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>Dr Jan Jans (b. 1954) studied theology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) where from 1985 until 1990 he was assistant of medical ethics at the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Law. After obtaining the degree of Doctor in Sacred Theology (STD/PhD) in 1990, he was from 1991 until 2005 assistant professor of moral theology at Tilburg Faculty of Theology (the Netherlands) and since 2006 associate professor of ethics at Tilburg School of Humanities. From 1993 until 2007, he lectured at ‘Bovendonk’ (Dutch seminary for late vocations) and from 1994 until 2003 he was professor at the ‘Theology for Ministry Summer Institute’ of the American College at Louvain. Since 2001/2002 he is visiting professor at St Augustine College of South Africa (Johannesburg) and lectured at other South African universities as well.
Jan Jans is an active member of the European Association for Catholic Theology (2005-2007: editor-in-chief of the journal Bulletin ET), the Internationale Vereinigung für Moraltheologie und Sozialethik, the Societas Ethica (board member since 2011), the Association of Teachers of Moral Theology [UK] and the Society of Christian Ethics [USA] (board member 2007-2011), the Catholic Theological Association of America, and vice-president of INSeCT (2008-2011).

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Baroness Françoise Holvoet Bourguignon studied BA Law & MA Philology. She has lectured in Zaire, Tunisia, Paris & Toronto. In recent years she strongly promotes reform in the Catholic Church.

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Dr Michael P. Hornsby-Smith is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey. For over thirty years he researched social changes in post-war English Catholicism in a series of studies including the first national survey of English Catholics in 1978, a survey of delegates to the National Pastoral Congress in 1980, studies of four inner-city and suburban parishes in London and Preston in the 1970s, and a study of the RENEW programme in an English Diocese in the 1980s. He held all three offices in the British Sociological Association’s Sociology of Religion Study Group (at various times between 1979 and 1993) and was a Council Member of the Société Internationale De Sociologie Des Religions (1987-97). He was at various times a member of the Catholic Education Council for England and Wales (1970-80), the Executive Committee of the Catholic Institute for International Relations (now Progressio, 1981-87), the Arundel and Britain Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission (1979-89), and a member of the Council and Issues Committee of the Catholic Union for Great Britain (1979-85).

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Baroness Helena Kennedy QC of the Shaws is a barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords in the UK. She is the elected principal of Mansfield College, Oxford University, UK. She fully qualified in law at the London’s Council of Legal Education. She holds twenty-six honorary doctorates in law: University of Strathclyde 1992, University of Teeside 1993, Keele University 1994, Lancaster University 1994, Leeds Metropolitan University 1995, University of Bristol 1997, University of Wolverhampton 1997, The Open University 1997, University of Abertay Dundee 1997, Tavistock Centre under the auspices of the University of East London 1997, University of Derby 1998, University of Leicester 1998, University of York 1999, National University of Ireland 2000, University of Aberdeen 2000, Oxford Brookes University 2001, Caledonian University 2001, Robert Gordon University 2002, Judicial Academy of Russia 2002, Polytechnic University of Tomsk 2002, Middlesex University 2003, De Montfort University 2004, University of Sheffield 2005, University of Staffordshire 2005, University of Paisley 2005, University of Edinburgh 2005.
Baroness Kennedy is the author of Eve was Framed (1992), Just Law: The changing face of justice (2004). She contributed to The Bar on Trial (1978), Child Sexual Abuse within the Family (1984), Balancing Acts: On being a mother (1989). She was the creator of BBC television series Blind Justice (1987).
Baroness Kennedy was a former chair of the Human Genetics Commission, which advises the on ethical, social, and legal issues arising from developments in genetic science. She was Chair of the London International Festival of Theatre (1994-2002); Chair of the British Counsel Board; Vice-President of the Haldane Society; Hon Fellow of the institute for Advanced Legal Studies; Board member of the Independent newspaper. Moderator of the BBC’s Hypotheticals. She received the UK ‘Woman of Europe’ award, 1995, ‘Campaigning and Influencing’ award (National Federation of Women’s Institutes 1996) and The Times ‘Lifetime Achievement in the Law’ award, 1996. She was created a Life Peer, as “The Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, of Cathcart in the City of Glasgow” (1997). She received the Grand Cross, Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (2004) and was made Commandeur, Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2006).

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Raymond Hervey Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton, was educated at Eton College in Berkshire and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in History in 1955. He served as Assistant Private Secretary to the Governor-General of Canada between 1960 and 1962. He entered the British House of Lords in 1971 as an independent peer. In 1991 he was elected a hereditary Lord. His interests have always focused on affordable housing, human rights, prisons, penal affairs and policy, conflict resolution, peace building, inter-faith relations, foreign affairs and policy. In 1994, he received an honorary doctorate of the University of Southampton, UK.
Since 1962, Lord Hylton has been a member of the Abbeyfield Society, the Catholic Housing Aid Society, the London Housing Aid Centre, the National Federation of Housing Associations, Mencap, the Foundation for Alternatives, the Hugh of Witham Foundation, and the Action around Bethlehem Children with Disability (ABCD). He has worked for Age Concern, L’Arche Ltd as well as the Mendip Wansdyke Local Enterprise Group. Since 1988, he is further president of the Northern Ireland Association for Care and Resettlement of Offenders. He is a member of the Housing Associations Charitable Trust and of Forward Thinking.
Lord Hylton is a trustee of the Acorn Christian Healing Trust and vice-chairman of Partners in Hope. From 1993-2001, he was chairman of the St Francis and St Sergius Trust Fund. For the Ammerdown Study Centre at Ammerdown House, Kilmersdon, near Bath, he is trustee and governor. In 1960 he was appointed an Associate of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

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Professor Erik Jurgens is Emeritus Professor of Government Law at the Free University of Amsterdam (1987 – 1999) and the National University of Limburg (1991-2000). Member and Assistant President of the Senate (Eerste Kamer) of the Parliament of the Netherlands (1995 – 2007); member of the Dutch House of Commons (Tweede Kamer; 1972-1975; 1990-1994); Chairmain of NOS (Dutch Radio & TV Umbrella; 1975 – 1985.
Professor Jurgens has been a member and chairman of numerous national and international institutions. At present he is chairman of Union of National Libraries in the Netherlands (2004 – now).
Among his publications we find: P.P.R. op aarde (1968); Omroep als publieke dienst (1985); Omroeprecht en auteursrecht (with N. van Lingen 1986); De stenen tafelen: een nieuwe moraal voor burgers en overheid? (editor, 1992); Tweede Kamer op orde (with J. A. van Schagen, 1993); De heren van Den Haag zijn onderweg (anthology of 100 poems, with F. Niessen, 1993); Een onparlementair stelsel (with W. Vermeend, 1993). He writes and has written many articles. In 1985 he was decorated as Officer of the Order of the Dutch Lion.

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Dr Manuela Kalsky is Professor at VU University in Amsterdam (Edward Schillebeeckx Chair for Theology and Society) and director of the Dominican Study Centre for Theology and Society (DSTS). She was a guest lecturer at the universities of Hannover, Hamburg , Fribourg and Vienna. She studied theology in Marburg (G) and Amsterdam. After graduating at the University of Amsterdam she took her PhD degree there on a research into Christology from the perspective of women in different cultures.
Her research in recent years has focused primarily on religion in a pluralist society. In this field, the DSTS initiated the multimedia project Nieuwwij.nl (project WE), with the aim of strengthening social cohesion by the innate capacity in society to live together with people from different cultures and religions.
Manuela Kalsky has published numerous articles on religion and society and is regularly involved in the public debate in the Netherlands on the role of religion in a multicultural society. She is also a board member of the European Project for Interreligious Learning.
Her recent publications include: ‘Religious Diversity as a Challenge to Theology. The research projects of the Dutch Dominican Study Centre for Theology and Society’, in: M. Kalsky, P. Nissen (eds.), A glance in the mirror. Dutch and Polish religious cultures (forthcoming by LIT Verlag); ‘Heil im alltäglichen Leben. Weiterdenken mit Edward Schillebeeckx in einer multireligiösen und multikulturellen Gesellschaft’, in: T. Eggensperger, U. Engel, e.a. (eds.), Edward Schillebeeckx: Impulse für Theologien – Impetus Towards Theologies, Ostfildern 2012, p. 211-229; ‘Alles vloeit. De spiritualiteit in de Lage Landen’, in: Tijdschrift voor Geestelijk Leven 68, 2012, p. 5-14; ‘Interreligious Dialogue and the Development of a Transreligious Identity. A Correspondence’, in: Journal of the European Society of Women in Theological Research 17, 2009, p. 41-58; ‘Religiöse Flexibilität. Eine Antwort auf kulturelle und religiöse Vielfalt’, in: R. Bernhardt, P. Schmidt-Leukel, Multiple religiöse Identität. Aus verschiedenen religiösen Traditionen schöpfen, Zürich 2008, p. 219-242; ‘Embracing diversity: Reflections on the transformation of Christian identity’, in: Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 17, 2007, p. 221-231.

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Dr Ursula King, MA (Delhi), PhD (London), DD h.c. (Oslo, Edinburgh, Dayton), is Professor Emerita of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol; Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol; Professorial Research Associate, Centre for Gender and Religions Research, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Ursula King is a world expert in feminism and gender studies. Her research and professorial positions in universities of Asia, Europe and North America have given her a truly international access to the field. Many of her books are classics and she is a frequent speaker at top academic conventions.
Among her numerous publications we find: The Search for Spirituality: Our Global Quest for a Spiritual Life, Women and Spirituality: Voices of Protest and Promise, Spirit of Fire: The Life and Vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Christ in All Things: Exploring Spirituality with Teilhard de Chardin, Turning Points in Religious Studies (ed.), Feminist Theology from the Third World: A Reader (ed.) and Religion and Gender (ed.). Her latest book is: Teilhard de Chardin and Eastern Religions. Spirituality and Mysticism in an Evolutionary World (Paulist Press 2011).
Ursula King is a member of British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR), Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain, European Society of Women in Theological Research, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and Society for the Study of Theology.

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Dr. L. Laeyendecker studied philosophy, theology and sociology. His doctoral dissertation concerned religion and conflict. He taught as professor of sociology at the universities of Leiden (1973 – 1989) and Amsterdam.
At various times he was board member and/or president of large organizations, such as the Dutch Anthropological and Sociological Association (NSAV), the Foundation for Pure Scientific Research (ZWO), the Foundation for Research in Theology and Religion (STEGON), the Commission on Spirit, Order and Organisation of The World Council of Churches, the well-known Catholic Social Ecclesiastical Institute in the Netherlands (KASKI), and others. From 1989 to 1992 he was director of the Multidisciplinary Center for Church and Society at Driebergen which focuses especially on problems of the sciences and ethics. He was involved with the Pastoral Council for the Netherlands and sat on the Board of the Acht Mei Beweging.
He wrote classic works on church governance: The Struggle to control charism. Salvation and Power in the Roman Catholic Church (1993) [Dutch: “Om de beheersing van het charisma: Heil en macht in de R.K. Kerk”], Culture at Risk. About modernity, science and religion (1994) [Dutch: “Bedreigde cultuur: Over moderniteit, wetenschap en religie“] and The Last Monopoly of the Roman Catholic Church. Changing Relationships between Clergy and Laity (1999) [Dutch: “Het Laatste Monopolie van de R.K. Kerk. Veranderende Verhoudingen tussen Priesters and Leken“]. Among his other books are: Strategieën van sociale verandering (1978), Orde, verandering, ongelijkheid: Een inleiding tot de geschiedenis van de sociologie (1981), Sociale verandering: Problemen en theorieën (1984) and Experiences and Explanations (1990).

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Dr Astrid Lobo Gajiwala, scientist, theologian and writer, is Head of the Tissue Bank at the Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India. She obtained her professional degrees at the National University of Singapore and at the University of Mumbai (PhD Medicine). She studied theology at St. Pius X College, Mumbai (10 courses of in total 212 lectures, 1985-1989) and at the Catherine of Siena Virtual College, Cincinnati, USA (2 courses, 2011).
Dr Lobo Gajwala published numerous articles in over 30 weeklies, periodicals and theological journals. She edited: Practicing Peace: Feminist Theology of Liberation, Asian Perspectives (ed. with Judette Gallares, Claretian Publications 2011); Gender Relations in the Church: A Call to Wholeness & Equal Discipleship (ed. with Varghese Theckanath & Raynah Braganza Passanha, Streevani, Pune 2012). She wrote the following chapters in books: “Making Space for the Other” in Creating a Balance: Developing New relationships Between Women and Men (Coady International Institute 2013); “Making a Path to the Womb: Eco-feminism and Its Implications” in Ecological Concerns: An Indian Christian Response (eds. Joseph Mattam & Jacob Vavunkal, Bangalore 1998); “The Passion of the Womb: Women Re-living the Eucharist” in Body Bread, Blood: Eucharistic Perspectives From the Indian Church (ed. Francis Gonsalves, Vidyajyoti 2000); “Struggling for the Soul: Women in Base Communities” in Seeking New Horizons (ed. Leonard Fernando, ISPCK 2002); “Mothering God” in Concerns of Women: An Indian Theological Response (eds. Evelyn Monteiro & Kochurani Abraham, Bangalore 2005); “The Wake-up Call for the Church” in Shaping Tomorrow’s Church: Formation of Priests & Religious for India (ed. Kurien Kunnumpuram, St. Paul’s 2006); “The Passion of the Womb: Women Re-living the Eucharist” in Body and Sexuality: Theological-Pastoral Perspectives of Women in Asia (eds. Agnes M. Brazal & Andrea Lizares, Ateneo de Manila university Press 2007); “Living the Tension: The Inter-faith Family in Dialogue” in Re-imagining Marriage and Family in Asia: Asian Christian Women’s Perspectives (eds. Sharon A. Bong & Pushpa Joseph, Malaysia 2008); “Women and Power” in Towards the Full Flowering of the Human: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Empowerment of Women (eds. Kurien Kunnumpuram & Evelyn Monteiro, Saint Paul 2011); “Negotiating Partnership in the Church” in Gender Relations in the Church: A Call to Wholeness & Equal Discipleship (Mumbai 2012).
Dr Lobo Gajwala has been on the Editorial Boards of Word and Worship, journal of the National Biblical, Catechetical and Liturgical Centre, and The Examiner, a newsweekly of the Bombay Archdiocese. She has worked on the Executive Team and served as a Resource Person for the Ecclesia of Women in Asia, Indian Theological Association, Indian Women’s Theological Forum, Commission for Women, Archdiocese of Bombay and Satyashodhak, a feminist collective. She has been a Consultor for the Indian bishops’ CBCI Commission for Women since 1992, helping draft the Gender Policy of the Catholic Church of India, and has been a resource person for the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences (FABC). She has served as Secretary of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council, Mumbai, and Vice President of its parish councils, member of parish liturgical teams and core teams of the Zonal Basic Christian Communities.

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Dr Kathleen Maas Weigert is the Carolyn Farrell BVM Professor of Women and Leadership at Loyola University, Chicago. She received the BA and MA in International Relations from the University of Minnesota and the PhD in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame. She has served as research professor of social justice at Loyola since July of 2010. Immediately prior to that she was the executive director of the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University, and served as a research professor in sociology and the program on justice & peace. She also held appointments at the University of Notre Dame, where she served as a member of the faculty and associate director for the Center for Social Concerns and was a fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
Professor Maas Weigert is the author or editor of several books, including Living the Catholic Social Tradition: Cases and Commentary (2005), America’s Working Poor (1995), and The Search for Common Ground: What Unites and Divides Catholic Americans, which received the 1998 “Award for Excellence in Research” from the National Conference of Catechetical Leaders.
She is a co-recipient of the University of Notre Dame’s 1991 Grenville Clark Award, which is given for “voluntary activities advancing the cause of peace and human rights.” In 2000, she received the University of Notre Dame’s Reinhold Niebuhr Award, which is given to one “whose life and writings promote or exemplify the area of social justice in modern life.”

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Siobhain McDonagh MP represents the constituency of Mitcham and Morden in the British Parliament, London, UK. She studied Politics at the University of Essex before becoming a clerical officer for the DHSS between 1981–83, moving on to Housing benefit from 1983–84, then a receptionist at the Wandsworth Homeless Persons Unit from 1984–86, and a housing adviser from 1986–88. Prior to being elected to Parliament she worked as a Development Manager for Battersea Churches Housing Trust from 1988-97. She also served as a councillor on London Borough of Merton for Colliers Wood ward between 1982 and 1998, chairing the Housing Committee between 1990 and 1995.
Siobhain McDonagh was first elected to parliament in 1997 where her particular interests are in health, housing, quality of life, welfare reform. After the May 2005 General Election she served as PPS to Dr. John Reid in his position as Secretary of State for Defence and from May 2006 to June 2007 Secretary of State for the Home Department. She was appointed to the position of Assistant Whip on 28 June 2007 in the re-shuffle brought about by Gordon Brown becoming Prime Minister (till 2010).
Siobhain McDonagh is a committed Catholic who has criticised the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church on a number of occasions. “Priority should be given to the kindness and the pastoral nature of the Church in dealing with people in difficulties rather than always sending down impossible standards of behaviour that we all, whoever we are, sometimes fall short of.”

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Prof Dr Thomas O’Loughlin is Professor of Historical Theology in the University of Nottingham, UK. He studied at University College Dublin (BA Phil), then at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth (BD Theol; MA Phil). He became Research Fellow in Dublin (Late Latin and Palaeography) and a Scholar in the School of Celtic Studies of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies which led to his PhD. In 1997 he entered the Department of Theology and Religious Studies in the University of Wales, Lampeter. His distinctive style of conducting historical theology that focuses on the dynamics of tradition within theology led to him being made the first Professor of Historical Theology in the University of Wales in February 2006; and to the award of a DD by Bangor University in 2010.
Professor O’Loughlin specializes in producing accurate historico-theological analyses, of which he has written hundreds over the past years. By way of example we note just for the one year 2012: Making the Most of the Lectionary: A User’s Guide, SPCK London; ‘Adomnán’s Plans in the Context of his Imagining ‘the Most Famous City’, Proceedings of the British Academy 175, 15-40; ‘The library of Iona at the time of Adomnán’. In: R.G. Gameson, ed., The Cambridge history of the Book in Britain (Volume I; c.400-1100), Cambridge University Press. 570-579; ‘Divisions in Christianity: The Contribution of “Appeals to Antiquity”’. In: S. Oliver, K.Kilby and T. O’Loughlin, eds., Faithful Reading: New Essays in Theology and Philosophy, T. and T. Clark. 221-241; ‘A Vernacular Liturgy versus a Liturgy in the “Vernacular”?’, Worship 86(3), 244-255; ‘The Biblical Dimension of Early Medieval Latin Texts’. In: K. Ritari, ed., Method and Genre in the Study of Medieval Texts (in press); ‘The ecclesial value of deacons within the Eucharistic Assembly’, New Diaconal Review (in press); ‘The Prayers of the Liturgy’. In: V. Boland and T. McCarthy, eds., The Word is Flesh and Blood: The Eucharist and Sacred Scripture, Dominican Publications, Dublin. 113-122; ‘Is every translation a vernacular translation?’, New Blackfriars (in press); ‘Jerome’s De uiris illustribus and Latin Perceptions of the New Testament’s Canon’. In: J.E. Rutherford and D. Woods, eds., The Mystery of Christ in the Fathers of the Church, Four Courts Press, Dublin. 55-65; ‘Christian Spirituality in Europe: The Celtic Tradition’. In: Richard Woods and Peter Tyler, eds., The Bloomsbury Guide to Christian Spirituality, Bloomsbury, London. 304-314; ‘The Derrynaflan Paten: Discovering an Ancient Theology’. In: S. Ryan and B. Leahy, eds., Treasures of Irish Christianity: People and Places, Images and Texts, Veritas, Dublin. 63-66; ‘Latina veritas: language a guarantor of truth?’, The Furrow 63 (7/8), 343-347.
Professor O’Loughlin is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; and of the Royal Historical Society.

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Dr Peter C. Phan is the inaugural holder of the Ignacio Ellacuría Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University, USA, and is the founding Director of the Graduate Studies Program in Theology and Religious Studies. He has earned three doctorates: Doctor of Sacred Theology from the Universitas Pontificia Salesiana, Rome, and Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Divinity from the University of London. He has also received two honorary degrees: Doctor of Theology from Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, and Doctor of Humane Letters from Elms College, Chicopee MA, USA.
Professor Phan began his teaching career in philosophy at Don Bosco College, Hong Kong. In the United States, he has taught at the University of Dallas, TX; the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, where he held the Warren-Blanding Chair of Religion and Culture; Union Theological Seminary, NY; Elms College, Chicopee, MA; and St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI. He was the first non-white to be elected President of the Catholic Theological Society of America. In 2010 he was awarded the John Courtney Murray Award, the highest honor given by the Catholic Theological Society of America for outstanding achievements in theology.
His publications in theology are wide-ranging. They deal with the theology of icon in Orthodox theology (Culture and Eschatology: The Iconographical Vision of Paul Evdokimov); patristic theology (Social Thought; Grace and the Human Condition); eschatology (Eternity in Time: A Study of Rahner’s Eschatology; Death and Eternal Life); the history of mission in Asia (Mission and Catechesis: Alexandre de Rhodes and Inculturation in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam) and liberation, inculturation, and interreligious dialogue (Christianity with an Asian Face; In Our Own Tongues; Being Religious Interreligiously). In addition, he has edited some 20 volumes (e.g., Christianity and the Wider Ecumenism; Church and Theology; Journeys at the Margins; The Asian Synod; The Gift of the Church; Directory on Popular Piety and Liturgy; Christianities in Asia, and The Cambridge Companion to the Trinity).

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The Very Revd. Professor Martyn Percy (BA, MA, M.Ed, PhD) is the 45th Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. Founded in 1525 and re-founded in 1546, Christ Church is one of Oxford’s largest colleges. Christ Church is also the cathedral church of the diocese of Oxford. The Dean presides over the both College and Cathedral, as well as the Choir School, with its world-class cathedral choir. Martyn was educated at the Universities of Bristol, Durham, London (King’s) and Sheffield. He trained for ordination after a career in publishing, serving as curate of St. Andrew’s Bedford (1990-94). He was Chaplain and Director of Studies at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1994-97), and from 1997-2004, Director of the Lincoln Theological Institute. He served as Canon Theologian of Sheffield Cathedral, and is a Canon Emeritus of Salisbury Cathedral.

In 2004 he was appointed as Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon. The College developed to become one of the largest Anglican ordination training centres in the world, blending part-time and full training. It now incorporates an Order of Sisters, an award-winning new chapel and education centre, and a research and consultancy centre. Martyn is a member of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford, and also tutors in the Social Sciences Division and the Said Business School of the University of Oxford. He is also Professor of Theological Education at King’s College London and Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London.

Martyn has undertaken a number of roles in public life, serving as a Director of the Advertising Standards Authority, and as an Adjudicator for the Portman Group (the self-regulating body for the alcoholic drinks industry). He has served as a Commissioner of the Direct Marketing Authority, as well as an Advisor to the British Board of Film Classification. He is currently Patron of St. Francis’ Children’s Society (an Adoption and Fostering Agency), a Trustee of the Grubb Institute and the Li Tim-Oi Foundation, and a Vice-President of Modern Church.

Martyn writes and teaches on Christianity and contemporary culture, modern ecclesiology and pastoral theology. His recent books include Anglicanism: Confidence, Commitment and Communion (Ashgate) and Thirty-Nine New Articles: An Anglican Landscape of Faith (Canterbury Press). Martyn is married to the theologian the Revd. Dr. Emma Percy, Chaplain and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. They have two sons, Benjamin and Joseph; and an over-friendly bearded collie, Pippa. Martyn was described in the journal Theology as the British Theologian closest to being a ‘missionary anthropologist’.

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