Paul Nimmo

University of Aberdeen

Paul Nimmo holds the King’s (1620) Chair of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen, having previously held positions at the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh. Paul serves as the English-language Editor for the Translators Seminar, and his own studies were undertaken in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Princeton, and Tübingen. His first monograph, Being in Action: The Theological Shape of Barth’s Ethical Vision, was awarded a John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and he has since published Barth: A Guide for the Perplexed, and co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Reformed Theology and the Oxford Handbook of Karl Barth. He is the Senior Editor of International Journal of Systematic Theology, and a Translation Fellow at the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Seminary. He is also a former co-Chair of the AAR Reformed Theology and History Group Steering Committee, and has served as the Treasurer of the Society for the Study of Theology. An ordained elder in the Church of Scotland, he participates actively in the life of the church at local and national levels, and is currently a member of the CPCE delegation for ecumenical dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church.