While it is yet day

Haddon Willmer

Bonhoeffer

  • The Whole World in His Hands

    When I was young, and the Bible was read in church beyond the bounds of sanitized lectionary, I heard that ‘the whole world lies in the hands of the evil one’ (I John 5.19). Coming from under the Blitz, through the war, the holocaust, Hiroshima, into cold war, this text had plausibility. We took it at least half…

  • An invitation to discuss Bonhoeffer’s letter of 21 July 1944

    On 20 July 1944, a plot to kill Hitler failed. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in prison, knew immediately that some of his companions in the resistance were already dead, and he and others were in greater danger of their lives than before. The next day, 21 July 1944, he wrote a remarkable letter to his friend Eberhard…

  • Jesus Christ the Forgiven: Christology, Atonement and Forgiveness

    Paper given at at SST, April 2000. Published in Forgiveness and Truth ed Alistair McFadyen and Marcel Saroty T & T Clark, 2001, pp 15-29. You can also download the paper as a pdf at the link here. All three at once Not all christologies are shaped by concern for atonement, and not all ideas…

  • Though I have a theological degree, but have not love, I am nothing

    Address given at Trinity College Bristol degree ceremony sometime in the late 1990s Do not assume that mere Reading will suffice without fervor, Speculation without devotion, Investigation without admiration, Observation without exaltation, Industry without piety, Knowledge without love, Understanding without humility, Study without divine grace. St. Bonaventure (1221–1274) Except for two good years, when the…