Alec Ryrie was born in London and grew up in Washington DC. He graduated from Cambridge University with a double First in History and received a doctorate in Theology from Oxford University. He is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University and a licensed minister in his local church. An expert on the Reformation in England and Scotland, he is the author of the prize-winning Being Protestant in Reformation Britain and The Sorcerer’s Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England and is the co-editor of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
Rev. Cheryl M. Peterson is a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and associate professor of systematic theology at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. Cheryl contributed to Transformative Lutheran Theologies: Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Perspectives, and authored Critical Issues in Ecclesiology, and Who is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century, in addition to numerous articles for professional journals. Cheryl lives in Columbus Ohio with her husband Chuck.
Rev. Dr. Carl R. Trueman (PhD, Aberdeen) holds the Paul Woolley Chair of Church History and is professor of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary. He has written more than a dozen books, and is currently co-editing with Bruce Gordon the Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism due in 2017. Dr. Trueman’s academic interests include Reformation church history, including the life and work of men like Martin Luther and John Owen. Dr. Trueman also writes online regularly at firstthings.com on contemporary issues such as religious freedom, identity politics, and the state of the church.
Eckhard Schnabel, PhD University of Aberdeen, is a professor of New Testament at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. He has also taught at Freie Theologische Akademie and Wiedenest Bible College in Germany, and at Asian Theological Seminary in the Philippines. He has served with Operation Mobilisation in Latin America and Europe, and with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship in Asia. He has published widely in journals, Festschriften, and volumes of collected essays. Dr. Schnabel and his wife, Barbara, reside in Gurnee, Illinois. They have two children. In his spare time, Dr. Schnabel enjoys reading, hiking, and running.
