About the Contributor(s): J. Richard Middleton is Professor of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis at Northeastern Seminary at Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, New York. His books include A New Heaven and a New Earth (2012), The Liberating Image (2005), Truth Is Stranger than It Used to Be (1995), and The Transforming Vision (1984). Garnett Roper is Lecturer in Theology and President of the Jamaica Theological Seminary in Kingston, Jamaica. He is a widely known commentator on social and religious issues throughout the Caribbean.