Stephen Prickett is Director of the Armstrong Browning Library and Margaret Root Brown Professor for Browning Studies and Victorian Poetry, at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, as well as Regius Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow, Scotland. His published works include Romanticism and Religion: The Tradition of Coleridge and Wordsworth in the Victorian Church (1976), Victorian Fantasy (1978), The Romantics (ed.) (1981), Words and the Word: Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation (1986), Reading the Text: Biblical Criticism and Literary Theory (ed.) 1991, and Origins of Narrative: the Romantic Appropriation of the Bible (1996).

Frank Burch Brown is Frederick Doyle Kershner Professor of Religion and the Arts at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis. He is author of four books, including Religious Aesthetics (Princeton Univ. Press, 1989) and Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000).  He is currently editing the 700-page Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts.  A composer with twenty commissioned works to his credit, including a recently fulfilled commission from the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, he also directs degree programs in music and the arts for CTS.