16 Facts About Paul Nimmo

Paul T Nimmo is a Scottish theologian who holds the position of King's Chair of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen.

Paul Nimmo was appointed in 2008 as Meldrum Lecturer in Reformed Theology at the University of Edinburgh, and was later promoted to Meldrum Senior Lecturer.

In 2013 Paul Nimmo was invited to a personal chair in systematic theology at the University of Aberdeen.

Paul Nimmo was translated to the 1620 King's Chair of Systematic Theology in 2016, and served as Head of Divinity at Aberdeen from 2016 to 2018 and again from 2022 to 2023.

Since 2016, Paul Nimmo has been senior editor of the International Journal of Systematic Theology, for which publication he served as Managing Editor between 2007 and 2014 and as Editor from 2013 to 2016.

Paul Nimmo has been a Member of the Translation Seminar at the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Seminary since 2007, and became the English-language editor of the published works of the Seminar in 2022.

Paul Nimmo served on the steering committee of the Reformed Theology and History Unit at the American Academy of Religion for nine years, including as co-Chair from 2017 to 2020, and on the steering committee of the Friedrich Schleiermacher Unit between 2016 and 2019.

Paul Nimmo served as treasurer of the Society for the Study of Theology from 2013 to 2016, having been a member of its executive committee between 2009 and 2012.

Paul Nimmo was awarded a John Templeton Award for Theological Promise in 2009, for his book Being in Action: The Theological Shape of Barth's Ethical Vision, which was based on his doctoral thesis at Edinburgh.

Paul Nimmo is the author of Karl Barth: A Guide for the Perplexed, co-Editor with David Fergusson of the University of Edinburgh of the Cambridge Companion to Reformed Theology, co-Editor with Paul Dafydd Jones of the University of Virginia of the Oxford Handbook of Karl Barth, and co-Editor with Keith L Johnson of Kenosis: The Self-Emptying of Christ in Scripture and Theology.

Paul Nimmo is currently completing a monograph entitled Karl Barth and the Lord's Supper: Thinking With and After Barth on the Lord's Supper, and preparing further work on heaven and on the doctrine of sanctification.

In 2020, Paul Nimmo became a Member of the Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe delegation for a second phase of ecumenical dialogue with the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity on the doctrine of the church.

From 2014 to 2018, Paul Nimmo was the Adviser of the Learn initiative of the Church of Scotland.

Paul Nimmo is an ordained elder in the Church of Scotland and preaches regularly in local parishes in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.

Paul Nimmo's teaching portfolio covers an array of themes in the areas of Christian theology, Christian ethics, and church history.

Paul Nimmo teaches on courses at the Aberdeen Academy of Theology, and at events of the Centre for Ministry Studies in Aberdeen, of which he is an associate.