John Hick, a world renowned theologian and philosopher of religion, is the author of numerous books, many of which have become classics in their field. He is currently a Fellow of the Insitute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham. Educated at Edinburgh and Oxford, he delivered the Gifford Lectures in 1986-7 and received the Grawemeyr Award for significant new thinking in religion in 1991.

Brian Hebblethwaite has lectured at Cambridge, Heidelberg and in India, is Canon Theologian at Leicester Cathedral, Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, and a widely published author.