Paul W. Chilcote served most recently as Director of the Centre for Global Wesleyan Theology at Wesley House, Cambridge, where he remains a Fellow. A Methodist historian and theologian, he was involved in theological education on three continents, having taught at Wesley College Bristol & Wesley House Cambridge (England), St. Paul's United Theological College (Kenya), the Methodist Theological School (Ohio), Duke Divinity School (North Carolina), Ashland Theological Seminary (Ohio), and having helped launch two new institutions -- Africa University (Zimbabwe) and Asbury Theological Seminary (Florida). He is an award-winning author and editor of nearly forty books and a frequent speaker and workshop leader in applied Wesleyan studies. He has been a Benediction oblate of Mt. Angel Abbey for over twenty-five years.