City lecturer is top young theologian
A CITY lecturer has been named as one of the most promising young theologians in the world.
Dr Paul Nimmo, who works at Edinburgh University, has been awarded a 2009 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise for his work on the ethics of the Swiss theologian Karl Barth.
Dr Nimmo will receive a prize of $10,000 plus additional funds of up to $10,000 to pay for public lectures at universities around the world.
He will receive the prize at a ceremony at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in May.
Established in 2005, the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise is given annually to twelve young scholars in any area of religious studies, for the best doctoral thesis or best first book related to the topic of God and spirituality.
Dr Nimmo's award was in recognition of his recent book Being in Action: The Theological Shape of Barth's Ethical Vision, which arose out of his doctoral research carried out at Edinburgh.
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