William Henry Willimon
American methodist bishop
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- Bachelors English Wofford College
- Masters Divinity Yale University
- PhD Theology Emory University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Henry Willimon is a retired American theologian and bishop in the United Methodist Church who served the North Alabama Conference for eight years. He is Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry and Director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Duke Divinity School. He is former Dean of the Chapel at Duke University and is considered by many as one of America's best-known and most influential preachers. A Pulpit & Pew Research on Pastoral Leadership survey determined that he was one of the two most frequently read writers by pastors in mainline Protestantism alongside the Roman Catholic writer Henri Nouwen. His books have sold over a million copies. He is also Editor-At-Large of The Christian Century. His 2019 memoir Accidental Preacher was released to wide acclaim, described by Justo L. Gonzalez as "An exceptional example of theology at its best."
William Henry Willimon's Published Works
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- Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony (1989) (202)
- Living in the Truth (1987) (102)
- The Search for Meaning in the Workplace (1996) (92)
- Pastor: The Theology and Practice of Ordained Ministry (2002) (61)
- Worship as pastoral care (1979) (36)
- The abandoned generation : rethinking higher education (1995) (33)
- Conversations With Barth on Preaching (2006) (17)
- Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching (1995) (16)
- Liturgy and learning through the life cycle (1980) (15)
- Where Resident Aliens Live: Exercises for Christian Practice (1996) (14)
- Religious Faith and the Development of Character on Campus. (1997) (12)
- Word, Water, Wine, and Bread: How Worship Has Changed Over the Years (1980) (11)
- Rekindling the flame : strategies for a vital United Methodism (1987) (11)
- Resident aliens : life in the Christian colony : a provocative Christian assessment of culture and ministry for people who know that something is wrong (2014) (9)
- The Truth About God: The Ten Commandments in Christian Life (1999) (8)
- Integrative preaching : the pulpit at the center (1981) (8)
- The Search for Meaning (1994) (8)
- Listening Ministry: Rethinking Pastoral Leadership (2007) (7)
- The service of God : Christian work and worship (1983) (6)
- Peculiar Speech: Preaching to the Baptized (1992) (6)
- What's right with the church (1985) (5)
- Has Higher Education Abandoned Its Students (1997) (5)
- Why Resident Aliens Struck a Chord (1991) (4)
- The Early Preaching of Karl Barth: Fourteen Sermons with Commentary by William H. Willimon (2009) (4)
- Book Review: The Church between Gospel and Culture: The Emerging Mission in North America (1998) (3)
- Downsizing The U.S.A (1997) (3)
- A Peculiarly Christian Account of Sin (1993) (3)
- The Intrusive Word: Preaching to the Unbaptized (1994) (3)
- Who will be saved (2008) (3)
- Lord, Teach Us: The Lord's Prayer & the Christian Life (1996) (3)
- Your Message Here. (2000) (3)
- We Work Hard, We Play Hard (2007) (2)
- Mixing religion and politics (1985) (2)
- “Eyewitnesses and Ministers of the Word” (1988) (2)
- Reading With Deeper Eyes: The Love of Literature and the Life of Faith (1998) (2)
- Can Christians Be Patriots (2007) (2)
- Abandoned its Students (1997) (2)
- The abandoned generation (1995) (2)
- A Guide to Preaching and Leading Worship (2008) (2)
- Time Made Strange: Preaching In Ordinary Time (2013) (2)
- The Lectionary (2001) (1)
- The Peace of God Go with You (1981) (1)
- Theological Table Talk Vocational Temptation (1995) (1)
- Why a Pastor Should Not Be a “Person ” (1994) (1)
- The Healing Vision (1990) (1)
- United Methodist Beliefs: A Brief Introduction (2007) (1)
- Sighing for Eden : sin, evil & the Christian faith (1985) (1)
- Critic's Corner (1992) (1)
- And the Laugh Shall Be First: A Treasury of Religious Humor (1986) (1)
- Matthew 5:43–48 (1992) (1)
- Thank God It's Friday (2006) (1)
- The Christian in a Post-Christian World (Part 3 of 3) (1995) (0)
- Confused, yet Curious, about Jesus August 31, 2003 (2005) (0)
- THE RELATIONSHIP OF LITURGICAL EDUCATION TO WORSHIP PARTICIPATION (1974) (0)
- Sermons from Duke Chapel: Voices from "A Great Towering Church" (2005) (0)
- A Terrible, Wonderful Place to Preach (2005) (0)
- Blasphemy: By David Lawton Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. 242 pp. $16.95 (1994) (0)
- Index of Books (2001) (0)
- Christian worship, Christian formation (1985) (0)
- Introduction: A Terrible, Wonderful Place to Preach (2005) (0)
- The Christian Colony (Part 2 of 3) (1995) (0)
- The Sunday After Tuesday: College Pulpits Respond to 9/11 (2002) (0)
- Oral Roberts Goes Legitimate (1976) (0)
- A Tribute to Andrew J. Weaver (2009) (0)
- Flannery O'Connor's Religious Imagination: A World with Everything Off Balance . By George A. Kilcourse Jr. New York: Paulist, 2001. viii + 328 pp. $24.95 paper. (2002) (0)
- Books Received (0)
- Sinning Like a Christian: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins (2005) (0)
- Keeping our care pastoral: Preaching as community creation (1987) (0)
- Book Notes (1983) (0)
- Barth on Preaching (2019) (0)
- Leading with the Sermon (2020) (0)
- The essential mission: Teaching undergraduates (1996) (0)
- Christian Ethics: When the Personal is Public is Cosmic (1995) (0)
- Adventures in Preaching- The Church's Peculiar Speech (1999) (0)
- Study Notes on the Book of Revelation (2009) (0)
- Index of Scripture (2005) (0)
- Living in the Truth: A Christian Perspective (1987) (0)
- Ezekiel 3:1–11 (2016) (0)
- On College and Friendship (1998) (0)
- More God Than We Want (2005) (0)
- Why We All Can'T Just Get Along (1997) (0)
- Leading with the Sermon: Preaching as Leadership (2020) (0)
- Keith A. Francis, William Gibson, Robert Ellison, John Morgan-Guy and Bob Tennant (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon: 1689–1901 (2013) (0)
- Baptism: Christian initiation (1985) (0)
- Remember Who You Are (1980) (0)
- Why I Am a United Methodist (1990) (0)
- Worship and the Church (2005) (0)
- Book Review: Preaching From the Old Testament with Integrity and Power (1991) (0)
- Reaching Out Through the Church's Peculiar Speech (1999) (0)
- Index Volume 70 (2016) (0)
- Old Duke New Duke: A report to the President (2007) (0)
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