David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, USA. He is also Chair of Christian Social Ethics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Senior Research Fellow at the International Baptist Theological Study Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Paul Silas Peterson is Privatdozent in the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Tübingen, Germany, and Protestant theologian at the Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam, Germany.