Rowan Strong is Professor of Church History in the Theology department of Murdoch University, Australia. He has degrees from New Zealand in history and theology from universities in New Zealand and Australia, and received his PhD in Ecclesiastical History from the University of Edinburgh. His previous publications include Alexander Penrose Forbes:The First Tractarian Bishop (Oxford, 1995), Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Religious Responses to a Modernizing Society (Oxford, 2002).