Paul Avis is Editor-in-Chief of Ecclesiology and an Honorary Professor in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His most recent books are Theology and the Enlightenment: A Critical Enquiry into Enlightenment Theology and its Reception (T&T Clark, 2023) and Revelation and the Word of God (T&T Clark, 2024).
Matteo Campagnaro was born in Italy, but began his training at the Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary Redemptoris Mater in Warsaw, Poland, being ordained priest in 2010. Since 2012 he has been the Secretary of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Warsaw and the director of the Archbishop’s House in Warsaw. In 2012 he obtained a licence and in 2016 a doctorate in Pastoral Theology from the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw. He teaches pastoral theology at the Catholic Academy of Warsaw and is the author of various academic works on Latin American post-conciliar theology and the pastoral thought of Luigi Giussani.
Silviu Chivu is a Ph.D. researcher at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, ku Leuven (Belgium) and a member of the Research Unit of Systematic Theology and the Study of Religion at the same institution. His doctoral dissertation examines contemporary approaches to political theology in Orthodox Christianity. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Theology from the University of Bucharest, Romania (2021) and a Research Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion from ku Leuven (2023). His research interests include, among others, ecclesiology, political theology, ecumenism, and modern Orthodox theology.
Laura Dijkhuizen is currently pastoring a Baptist city church in the Netherlands. She is in the transition of handing over her position as Dean of the School of Theology, Foundation Academy of Amsterdam, which she held for six years. However, she will stay on as a lecturer specialising in church- and missional-leadership and practical theology. Laura trains trainers in a leadership program for pastors which covers more than 20 African countries and is guest lecturing at 3 universities in the continent, namely in Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Zambia. She is in the final phase of her PhD journey with the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (vu), Faculty of Religion and Theology, in which she focuses on gender roles within church leadership in the Dutch evangelical movement.
Griffin Gooch is a Generation Z writer and speaker based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He has received a Bachelor’s of Political Science and Philosophy from Ferris State University, and will be awarded a Master’s of Arts in Theological Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary in early 2024. Beyond graduation, he hopes to teach in the field of theology and eventually complete a PhD in philosophical theology. His academic interests focus on the intersection of theology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, literary fiction and how each of these disciplines correspond to the healthy functioning of human systems.
Robert Hannaford taught theology in Chichester and Oxford before moving to the University of Cumbria, UK, where he served as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education, Arts and Business and Professor of Theology. Following retirement from the university he served as Director of Ministerial Formation for the Anglican Diocese of Carlisle.
