Malcolm Brown is Director of Mission and Public Affairs for the Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England. He was formerly Principal of the Eastern Region Ministry Course within the Cambridge Theological Federation, having previously spent ten years as Executive Secretary of the William Temple Foundation in Manchester. His early ministry was as a parish priest and industrial missioner in Kent and Southampton. He is author of a number of books including, After the Market (Peter Lang), The Church and Economic Life, co-authored with Paul Ballard (Epworth) and Tensions in Christian Ethics (SPCK).

Alan Suggate taught Classics with RE in state schools, and then Religious Studies at the College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham, before moving to the Theology Department of Durham University. He completed his PhD on William Temple, and reworked it as William Temple and Christian Social Ethics Today (T. & T. Clark). He co-led a series of consultations between German Lutherans and Anglicans which produced the volume Worship and Ethics (Walter de Gruyter). He also taught Latin American Liberation Theology and East Asian Theologies, visiting Japan and South Korea several times, and publishing Japanese Christians and Society (Peter Lang). He now lives in active retirement, taking part in many faith and life ventures in the north-east of England, including the Arts and Recreation Chaplaincy. He has been a lay member of the parish church for 45 years, and is very interested in the potential of local churches for mission and social engagement.

Jonathan Chaplin is Director of the Kirby Lang Institute for Christian Ethics, Cambridge, and a member of the Cambridge University Divinity Faculty. He has taught political theory and political theology in the UK, Canada and the Netherlands. His publications include Living Lightly, Living Faithfully: Religious Faiths and the Future of Sustainability (Faraday Institute/KLICE), ‘Law, Religion and Public Reasoning’, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 1:2 (2012), Herman Dooyeweerd: Christian Philosopher of State and Civil Society (University of Notre Dame Press), God and Global Order (Baylor) and God and Government (SPCK).

Anna Rowlands is currently Lecturer in Theology and Ministry at King’s College, London until September 2014, when she will take up post as Lecturer in Contemporary Catholic Studies and Deputy Director of the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University. She is a Research Associate at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge and the founding Chair of a new UK Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice. She has published widely on a range of themes in political theology, including Pathways to the Public Sphere (Lit Verlag), and is author of the forthcoming Catholic Social Teaching: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury).

John Hughes was Dean of Chapel and Fellow of Jesus College and an affiliated Lecturer in the Cambridge University Faculty of Divinity where he taught philosophy, ethics, and Christian doctrine. He was the author of The End of Work: Theological Critiques of Capitalism (Wiley-Blackwell) and the editor of The Unknown God: Sermons Responding to the New Atheists (Wipf & Stock/ SCM Press). John tragically died in a car accident on 29 June 2014, just a short time before the publication of Anglican Social Theology.

Malcolm Brown is Director of Mission and Public Affairs for the Archbishops' Council. He previously taught ethics at Manchester University and in the Cambridge Theological Federation. Alan Suggate is former Senior Lecturer in Theology, University of Durham, and the foremost expert on William Temple. Jonathan Chaplin is a leading Anglican ethicist. He is based at the Kirby Laing Institute of Christian Ethics, Cambridge. Anna Rowlands is an expert on Catholic Social Teaching. Now based at Kings College, London, she previously taught Practical Theology at Westcott House, Cambridge. John Hughes is Dean of Chapel & Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. He teaches philosophy, ethics, doctrine, and social thought in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.