Geoffrey William Bromiley (7 March 1915 – 7 August 2009)^[1] was an English ecclesiastical historian andAnglican theologian. He wasprofessor emeritus atFuller Theological Seminary inPasadena, California, having been Professor of Church History and HistoricalTheology there from 1958 until his retirement in 1987.^[2]

Bromiley was born into an "active Christian family" inBromley Cross, Lancashire, England, in 1915.^[3] He had three sisters, one of whom, Lillian (1917–71), became a renowned teacher and evangelist, who worked firstly inChina and then among the Chinese community inMalaysia.^[3]

Bromiley was educated atBolton School andEmmanuel College, Cambridge, receivingfirst-class honours in Part II of the modern and medieval languagestripos in 1936.^[4] During his time at Cambridge he was a member of theInter-Collegiate Christian Union, and upon receiving his degree he completed further studies in theology atTyndale Hall inBristol.^[5] Ordained in theChurch of England in 1938, Bromiley briefly served as an Anglican priest inCumbria before commencing postgraduate research in history at theUniversity of Edinburgh, where he received a PhD in 1943 with a dissertation onJohann Gottfried Herder and German Romanticism beforeSchleiermacher.^[5]

Bromiley returned to Tyndale Hall shortly after receiving his doctorate, becoming a lecturer in theology and, later, vice principal of the college (1946–51).^[5] Whilst there he earned a second doctorate (DLitt) at Edinburgh for a thesis that was subsequently published asBaptism and the Anglican Reformers. He was awarded a further honorary doctorate (DD) by the university in 1961, in recognition of his contribution to church scholarship.^[5]

Bromiley left academia to serve as Rector of St. Thomas’s Church,Edinburgh, from 1951 to 1958. In the latter year, he was appointed Professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he remained until his retirement in 1987.^[2] He helped to launch the seminary's PhD degree programme in history, supervising several students using the Oxbridge tutorial method of one-to-one engagement.^[5] An endowed chair in church history at Fuller was established in his name in 1991.

Bromiley died inSanta Barbara, California, on 7 August 2009.

• Baptism and the Anglican Reformers, 1953, Lutterworth Press.
• The Baptism of Infants, 1955, 1976 & 1977, Vine Books (Out of print, but nowavailable onlineArchived 28 July 2011 at theWayback Machine through theChurch Society website)
• Sacramental Teaching and Practice in the Reformation Churches, 1957, Eerdmans.
• Children of Promise: The Case for Baptizing Infants, 1979, Eerdmans,ISBN 978-0-8028-1797-6
• God and Marriage, 1980, Eerdmans,ISBN 978-0-8028-1851-5
• Historical Theology: An Introduction, 2000, T & T Clark,ISBN 978-0-567-22357-9
• Introduction to the Theology of Karl Barth, 2000, T & T Clark,ISBN 978-0-567-29054-0

Bromiley also co-edited the English translation ofKarl Barth'sChurch Dogmatics series withT. F. Torrance.

Bromiley was also a contributor to the fully revised edition ofInternational Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Eerdmans. 1979.ISBN 0-8028-3781-6.

• Fuller Mourns the Loss of Geoffrey Bromiley
• Geoffrey Bromiley,Christianity Today
• Geoffrey Bromiley at TheologicalStudies
• The Baptism of InfantsArchived 28 July 2011 at theWayback Machine atChurch Society

• Only God is Free,Christianity Today, Feb 2002

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