BD (Oxford), PhD (Bristol)
Tutor, Bristol Baptist College (1977-1990)
Coordinating Secretary for International Affairs of the Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland (1990-1997)
General Secretary of the Conference of European Churches (1997-2005)
Editor of the Baptist Quarterly (1980-1985)
Selected Publications
'God at Work in the World: Old Liberal and New Secular Theology', Baptist Quarterly 24.7 (1972)
'Baptists and the Outbreak of the First World War', Baptist Quarterly 26.2 (1975)
'Moltmann on the Congregation', Baptist Quarterly 28.3 (1979), 101-109.
'Facing Secularism' in A Call to Mind: Towards a Theology of Commitment (Baptist Union, 1981)
Faith (SPCK, 1981)
'Worldliness or Unwordliness? The Issue between Bonhoeffer and Bultmann as seen by Ronald Gregor Smith', Scottish Journal of Theology 34.6 (1981)
(ed.) Baptists in the Twentieth Century. Papers presented at a summer school July 1982 (Baptist Historical Society, 1983)
'Lutheran Bonhoeffer and the Guilty Nation', Baptist Quarterly 30.4 (1983)
'The Covenant and Community' in Bound to Love (Baptist Union, 1986)
'Bonhoeffer, Theist or Moralist?", Theology 89 (May 1986)
The Theology of Ronald Gregor Smith (Brill, 1986)
A Patriotism for Today: Love of Country in Dialogue with the Witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Collins, 1986)
Lovers Of Discord: Twentieth-century Theological Controversies in England (SPCK, 1988)
'Nationalism and Internationalism: A Theological Critique' in The Nuclear Weapons Debate: Theological and Ethical Issues edited by Richard Bauckham and R. J. Elford (SCM, 1989), 65-79
What Freedom? The Persistent Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Bristol Baptist College, 1990)
'A Baptist View' in Rupert A. Davies (ed.), The Truth in Tradition (Epworth, 1992), 6-32
'Oldham and Baillie: A Creative Relationship' in Andrew Morton (ed.), God's Will in a Time of Crisis: A Colloquium Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Baillie Commission (CTPI, 1994)
Learning to Speak: The Church's Voice in Public Affairs (T & T Clark, 1995)
'P. T. Forsyth: A Political Theologian?' in Justice the True and Only Mercy edited by Trevor Hart (T & T Clark, 1995)
'Profile: David Russell', Epworth Review 23.3 (September 1996), 21-33
'Community in the Ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer', Studies in Christian Ethics 10.1 (1997)
'War, Hitler and Apartheid: What Determines Theologians' Responses?', Modern Believing 39.3 (July 1998)
'Ecumenical witness for peace' in The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer edited by John De Gruchy (Cambridge, 1999)
‘Britain and the World Today: A New Moot?’ in Christian Thinking and Social Order edited by Marjorie Reeves (Cassell, 1999)
Faith on the frontier: A life of J H Oldham (T & T Clark, 1999)
'The Larger Context: Morris West, Servant of World Ecumenism' in J. H. Y. Briggs (ed.), Baptists Together: Papers published in memory of W. M. S. West (Baptist Historical Society, 2000)
'Pure Clay and Time's Mud: Biography as History' in Ecumenism and History: Studies in Honour of John H. Y. Briggs edited by Anthony R. Cross (Paternoster, 2002)
'On Being Prayed For', Ecumenical Review 54.1 (2002)
'Review Article: Making a Denomination', Baptist Quarterly 40.2 (April 2003)
'Ecumenical and the New Paradigm of Healing', Ecumenical Review 55.3 (July 2003)
The Churches in Europe as Witnesses to Healing (WCC, 2003)
'The Future of Ecumenism in Europe' in The Unity We Have and the Unity We Seek edited by Jeremy Morris and Nicholas Sagovsky (T & T Clark, 2003)
'Trustworthiness: More than Preserving the Past', Ecumenical Review 56.1 (January 2004)
'John Baillie and "the Moot"' in Christ, Church and Society edited by David Ferguson (T & T Clark, 2004)
'Looking to Porto Alegre', Ecumenical Review 57.3 (July 2005)
Bonhoeffer and Britain (Churches Together In Britain and Ireland, 2006)
'Two decades of Ecumenism in Europe: A Promising Past with an Uncertain Future' in Ecumenical and Eclectic: The Unity of the Church in the Contemporary World. Essays in Honour of Alan P. F. Sell, (ed.) Anna Robbins (Paternoster, 2007), 205-220
(ed.), Dietrich Bonhoeffer London: 1933-1935 (Fortress, 2007)
'The Anglo-German Churches' Exchange Visits of 1908–09: A Notable Anniversary', Ecumenical Review 59.2-3 (April-July 2007)
'The Mutual Contributions of Church History and Systematic Theology: The Holocaust and Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a Case Study', Pacifica 20.2 (June 2007)
'Barmen and the Ecumenical Movement', Ecumenical Review 61.1 (March 2009)
(ed.), The Moot Papers: Faith, Freedom and Society 1938-1947 (T & T Clark, 2010)
'Free Church, National Church: Dropping the Pretences for Unity', Theology 113 (November 2010)
'Bonhoeffer for the Coming Generations: The New English Works', Pacifica 25.2 (June 2012)
'Bonhoeffer the ecumenical troublemaker' in Gordon Preece and Ian Packer (eds.), Bonhoeffer Down Under: Australian and South African Essays Celebrating the Centenary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Birth (ATF, 2012)
'Christian Faith in Europe: residual or potential?', International Journal for the Study of the Church 13.1 (March 2013)
Ecumenical Dynamic: Living in more than one place at once (World Council of Churches, 2013)
'Public Ethics and the Reception of Bonhoeffer in Britain' in Interpreting Bonhoeffer: Historical Perspectives, Emerging Issues edited by Clifford Green and Guy Carter (Fortress, 2013)
'Between an Confessing Church and Contextual Ethics. Bonhoeffer: The Bruay Conference (1934) and the Continuing Ecumenical Quest for Public Theology' in A Spoke in the Wheel: The Political in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer edited by Kirsten Busch Nielsen et al (Gutersloher Verlagshaus, 2013)
(Ed.) The Moot Papers: Faith, Freedom and Society 1938-1944 (T & T Clark, 2015)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Ecumenical Quest (World Council of Churches, 2015)
'The Ecumenical Baptist Future' in Baptist Identity into the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Ken Manley edited by Frank Rees (Melbourne: Whitley, 2016)
'A Tale of Two Bonhoeffers: Ronald Gregor Smith, John A. T. Robinson and the Dissemination of Bonhoeffer in the English Speaking World' in Engaging Bonhoeffer edited by Matthew Kirkpatrick (Fortress, 2016)
Look Back in Hope: An Ecumenical Life (Resources, 2017)
'Fighting, Faith and Freedom: 1914 and today' in Crossing Baptist Boundaries edited by Erich Geldbach (Mercer, 2019)
'Bonhoeffer and Ecumenism' in The Oxford Handbook to Dietrich Bonhoeffer edited by Philip Ziegler and Michael Mawson (Oxford, 2019)
'An Alliance for International Friendship: Sentiment, Reality, Hope' in 'A World Order of Love': Baptists and the Peacemakers (Centre for Baptist Studies in Oxford, 2019)
'What Happens in Worship?' in Reconciling Rites: Essays in Honour of Myra N. Blyth edited by Andy Goodliff et al (Centre for Baptist Studies in Oxford, 2020)
'“The Burning Fire of Love, the Nucleus of Reconciliation”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Theme of the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches', Ecumenical Review 73.2 (2021) 199-214
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