Haddon Willmer retired in 1998 as Professor of Theology at the University of Leeds, where he taught Christian history and theology since 1966. He has special interests in forgiveness and politics, in the relation between Christianity and European civilisation and in contemporary realisations of Christianity in mission and development. He studied in Tubingen in 1973-74, seeking to understand Bonhoeffer by investigating some of his less noticed contemporaries, such as Heinrich Vogel and Otto Dibelius.
MA PhD (Cambridge, 1971)
Research Fellow, Emmanuel College Cambridge, 1964-66
Maurice Reckitt Research Fellow in Christian Social Thought, University of Sussex, 1975-77
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Professor of Theology, University of Leeds 1966-1998
Research Tutor, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies - 1999
Areas of interest: Christian theology and history, politics and forgiveness, Barth and Bonhoeffer, missiology, the inheritance and future of Christianity in England and Europe, practical theology, child theology
PhD Title: Sealing and enlightenment: Aspects of the early Christian doctrine of baptism (1971)
Selected Publications:
'"Holy Worldliness" in Nineteenth-Century England' in D. Baker (ed.), Studies in Church History 10 (1973), 193-211
‘Twice-Baptised Christians – a Way Forward for Church Reform and Unity’, The Fraternal 175 (1976)
"Towards a Theology of Politics", Nottingham, Shaftesbury Project (1976)
"The Politics of Forgiveness-A New Dynamic," The Furrow, 30.4 (April 19, 1979), pp. 207-218
‘Does Jesus Call Us to Political Discipleship?’, in Christian Faith and Political Hope: A Reply to E.R. Norman, ed. Charles Elliott (Epworth, 1979)
'A Comment' in The Origin of Christology by C. F. D. Moule (CUP, 1978), pp.159-174.
'Theology and European Security' in Ethics and European Security, Barrie Paskins (ed.) (Croom Helm, 1986)
'The Significance of Restorationism' Baptist Quarterly 32.1 (Jan, 1987), pp.19-27
‘Images of the City and the Shaping of Humanity’ in Theology in the City: A Theological Response to “Faith in the City”, ed. Anthony Harvey (SPCK, 1989)
'The Justification of the Godless: Heinrich Vogel and German Guilt' in Protestant Evangelicalism: Britain, Ireland, Germany and America c. 1750-c. 1950, Keith Robbins (ed.) (Blackwell, 1990), pp.327-46.
(ed.) 20/20 Visions: The Futures of Christianity in Britain (SPCK, 1992)
The Christian Family, Hugh Pyper (ed.) (SCM, 1996)
‘Costly Discipleship’ in The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer (CUP, 1999)
'Responses to Miroslav Volf's "The social meaning of reconciliation', Transformation: An International Evangelical Dialogue on Mission and Ethics 16.1 (Jan/Mar 1999), pp.13-17.
'Jesus Christ the Forgiven: Christology, Atonement and Forgiveness' in Forgiveness and Truth: Explorations in Contemporary Theology, eds. A. McFayden and M. Sarot (T & T Clark, 2001)
'The Collapse of Congregations', Anvil 18.4 (2001), pp. 249-260
'Writing Local Church History' in Anthony R. Cross (ed.), Ecumenism and History: Studies in Honour of John H. Y. Briggs (Paternoster, 2002)
Evangelicalism 1785-1835: An Essay (1962) and Reflections (2004) (Paternoster, 2006)
'Karl Barth' in The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology, eds. T. Cavanaugh & Peter Scott (Blackwell, 2007)
'"Vertical" and "Horizontal" in Paul's Theology of Reconciliation in the Letter to the Romans', Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 24.4 (October 2007), pp.151-160
‘Forgiveness as permission to live’ in Wounds that Heal: Theology, Imagination and Health, J. Baxter (ed.), (SPCK, 2007)
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