Ted A. Campbell was born in Beaumont, Texas, and was educated at Lon Morris College, the University of North Texas, Oxford University, and Southern Methodist University, where he received the Ph.D. degree in 1984. He served as a faculty member at a variety of theological institutions including Duke Divinity School and Wesley Theological Seminary, and also as president of Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. He currently serves as Associate professor of Church History at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

"Ted Campbell offers those of us involved in the life of Christian communities a rich gift." --from the Foreword by Brian McLaren

"Against some fashionable readings that magnify diversity to the point of contradictoriness, Ted Campbell convincingly demonstrates that the core of the Christian gospel has been formulated with remarkable consistency across time and space. This important book thus sets out the doctrinal basis for that unity to which, after a century's ecumenical work on questions of 'faith and order,' the institutionally divided churches remain called by the gospel itself." --Geoffrey Wainwright, Duke Divinity School

"There is much wisdom in this book...[It] should be read attentively by all those who are committed to ecumenical dialogue."--The Tablet