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'Gerard Mannion is the Amaturo Professor in Catholic Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, where he is also a Senior Research Fellow of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. He serves as chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network (www.ei-research.net) and is editor of the Bloomsbury Series, Ecclesiological Investigations'Revd Dr Paul M. Collins, formerly Reader in Theology at the University of Chichester, Parish Priest on Holy Island, Northumberland, England. Gareth Powell  studied at Westminster College, Oxford, the Queen's Foundation and the University of Birmingham  and the Ecumenical Institute, Bossey in Switzerland. A Methodist Minister, he is currently the Methodist Chaplain to Cardiff University. Powell has wide experience of the issues that arise in ecumenical debate as a member of the Methodist-Roman Catholic Conversations and Chair of The Methodist Church Committee for Local Ecumenical Development. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Methodism and Canon Law. Kenneth Wilson was educated at Cambridge and Bristol Universities and is a Methodist Minister. After chaplaincies to London University and Kingswood School, Bath, held the Rowbotham Chair in Philosophical Theology and Ethics at Wesley College Bristol and taught at Bristol University, (1973-80). 1980-1996 Principal Westminster College, Oxford; 1996-2001 Director of Research Queens Foundation, Birmingham. Currently: - Visiting Research Fellow, Canterbury Christ Church University, and Chichester University. His publications cover: Making Sense of It (Epworth); Focus on God (with Frances Young, Epworth); Freedom and Grace (ed. with Ivor Jones, Epworth); Readings in Church Authority (ed. with Gerard Mannion, Richard Gaillardetz and Jan Kerkhofs, Ashgate, 2003); Learning to Hope (Epworth, 2006).

• Welcome to Ecclesiological Investigations: A New International Research Network - Gerard MannionAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction - Gerard Mannion and Kenneth WilsonPart I: Attending to the CreatorGiving Attention to God - Kenneth WilsonThe World as Creation: The God-Given Context of God's Glory - Kenneth WilsonPart II: Encountering ChristThe Enlightenment and Certainty: The Humility of the Church - Kenneth WilsonHermeneutics and Ecclesiology - Gerard MannionJoy in the Presence of the Crucified - Kenneth WilsonPart III: Living in the SpiritAct and Being in the Church: Comparative Explorations in Ecclesiology and Ethics - Gerard MannionEcclesiology: Context and Community - Paul M. CollinsEcclesiolohy: Worship and Community - Paul M. CollinsGovernance: The Basis of Faithfulness - Gareth PowellAfterword: The Gift of Mission -Paul M. Collins and Gareth Powell

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