editors, Erwin Fahlbusch, Jan Milič Lochman, John Mbiti, Jaroslav Pelikan, Lukas Vischer ; translator and English-language editor, Geoffrey W. Bromiley ; statistical editor, David B. Barrett ; foreword, Jaroslav Pelikan
prepared by more than 600 scholars and specialists under the supervision of Samuel Macauley Jackson (editor-in-chief); with the assistance of Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore (associate editors) [and 8 others]