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Haddon Willmer

  • ‘Vertical’ and ‘Horizontal’ in Paul’s Theology of Reconciliation in the Letter to the Romans

    This paper was written to honour Vinay Samuel, the first director of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. I worked there for a dozen years after I retired from Leeds. I liked its vision and the students it brought me.  Corneliu Constantineanu was the first person I supervised at OCMS and he became a dear friend. He…

  • Learning history through moments

    History as I was taught it was basically one thing after another… Getting to know the sequence, the flow, became more sophisticated as the flood broadened, But it was still sequence and consequence One thing that was missing, was contemplation and penetration of moments, short and drawn out moments… So for instance I read a…

  • Reading the Bible, Searching for Faith

    This was written in response to a recent article published in the New Statesman, in which Lamorna Ash reflects on reading the Bible and searching for faith. 1. My confession of faith The search for faith, in a Christian way, has been a central thread of my life. Reading the Bible, by myself and in…

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  • Foundational vision of the Earth

    The government says its immigration policy is ‘fundamentally compassionate’. That provokes me to wonder: what is compassion? How does God show us compassion and call us to share it? Psalm 145 8-9, 13-16 pictures earth thriving in peace, as it lives under and from the compassion of God, who opens his hand and fills every creature…

  • Entry Point seminar

    This is a seminar Haddon gave in 2015 introducing the themes of his book Entry Point, written with Keith White. You can find the book here, and there is discussion of the book on the Child Theology Movement website here.

  • World’s History, Heaven’s Silence, Theology’s Place

    Inaugural Lecture, University of Leeds, 1996 I am a Leeds-grown professor. I have worked with three notable Professors, John Tinsley, David Jenkins and Adrian Hastings, who have taught me much, as have many other colleagues in the Department where I have been able to learn what theology and religious studies are in practice and also…

  • God so loved the world

    Presidential Address to the Yorkshire Baptist Association, 1985 Allow me first one personal remark. What I have to say may sound like a lecture; I ask you to hear it as a testimony. It describes something of what it has been given to me to discover, to imagine, to think and to seek for, in…

  • This Answers To That

    Is THIS, No one is safe until everyone is safe – we applied it to the pandemic, but why not our economy? | Rowan Williams | The Guardian the answer to THAT, The Guardian view on charities and the cost of living crisis: overwhelming needs | Editorial | The Guardian? ‘THAT’ warns that ‘as more and more people struggle with…

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