His education spans East and West, religion and the humanities. With a Ph.D. in biblical studies from Northwestern University, he has studied at the University of Strasbourg in France, the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland, Hebrew-Union School of Bible and Archaeology in Jerusalem, and the Daitokuji Zen Monastery in Kyoto, Japan. He has taught courses on Asian art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, lectured at the Canadian National Museum of Art in Ottawa, and shown his own art at a number of galleries in Virginia.

Professor Edwards’ books include a New Testament commentary, Christian Being and Doing, a book on a Japanese nature mystic, Issa: The Story of a Poet-Priest, and more recently, Van Gogh and God: A Creative Spiritual Quest. Recent articles on Van Gogh and reviews of art books have appeared in "Bible Review" and in "The Christian Century." Dr. Edwards was an on-camera expert and technical advisor to the A@E Television Biography of Vincent Van Gogh. Currently Professor Edwards is working on a volume to be entitled Emily’s Door and Vincent’s Window: The Poet and the Painter Seeking the Sacred. The book finds parallels between the poet Emily Dickinson and the painter Vincent Van Gogh in their spiritual searches.

Janet Martin Soskice was born in Canada and holds degrees from Cornell University (B.A.), the University of Sheffield (M.A. in Biblical Studies) and Oxford University (D.Phil.in Philosophy of Religion).

She is a lecturer in the faculty of divinity at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Jesus College. Her special area is philosophical theology, especially religious language, and she has had a strong interest in science and religion since the publication of her book Metaphor and Religious Language, in 1984.

She is the editor of After Eve: Women, Theology and the Christian Tradition, 1990, and co-editor with Grant Gillett and K.W. M. Fulford of Medicine and Moral Reasoning, 1994.

She has lectured widely around the world and was a visiting professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden; the University of Calgary; and the Gregorian University in Rome.

She is past president of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain and for many years was member of the English Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission.

From 1990-1994 she was a member of the board of the Center for Theological Explorations.

Since 1993 she has been a member of the Advisory Committee on Fundamental Theology for the international journal, Concilium. Since 1999 she has served on the Board of Directors of Concilium.