Gerard Mannion serves as chair of the Ecclesiological  Investigations International Research Network and is  presently a Visiting Senior Fellow of the Katholieke  Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. The founding director of the  Centre for the Study of Contemporary Ecclesiology, he is  also cochair of the Ecclesiology Program Group of the  American Academy of Religion. His most recent publications  include Ecclesiology and Postmodernity: Questions for  the Church in Our Time (Liturgical Press, 2007) and  The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church  (2007, ed. with Lewis Mudge).