Keith Clements
Keith Clements was born in China, studied at King’s College, Cambridge and Regent’s Park College, Oxford, and received his PhD from Bristol University. He was Senior Tutor at Bristol Baptist College and part-time lecturer in the University of Bristol from 1977 to 1990, Secretary for International Affairs in the Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and General Secretary of the Conference of European Churches, Geneva, from 1997 to 2005.
He has written extensively on modern Christian life and thought, with a specialist interest in Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His recent publications include Bonhoeffer and Britain, The SPCK Introduction to Bonhoeffer and, as editor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Vol. 13: London 1933–35. Keith has also studied intensively the ecumenical pioneer J.H. Oldham whose biography, Faith on the Frontier (1999), he then wrote; in addition he has recently edited for publication the records of one of Oldham’s most significant ventures into Christian social thought, The Moot Papers: Faith, Freedom and Society 1938–44.
In ‘active retirement’ Keith and his wife Margaret now live in Portishead, north Somerset. He teaches periodically in Australia and continues to write, focusing on ecumenical life and the need for a new vision of the Church in relation to society. He enjoys music, reading, walking, bird-watching and spending time with his grandchildren.
