Gerald Bray teaches in the areas of church history and historical theology. In 2006, he was named research professor, and is currently engaged in writing and speaking on a variety of theological issues. A prolific author, Bray has published many scholarly articles and books, including The Doctrine of God in the Contours of Christian Theology series (of which he is also the general editor) and Biblical Interpretation: Past and Present. He served as editor for The Anglican Canons 1529–1947 and Tudor Church Reform, which contains the Henrician Canons of 1535 and the Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum, and for three volumes in the Ancient Christian Commentary Series (Romans; 1-2 Corinthians; and James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude). He is the editor of the Anglican theological journal Churchman. He edited Galatians, Ephesians, the first volume of the Reformation Commentary on Scripture. His systematic theology God is Love was released by Crossway in 2012, and his historical theology God has Spoken was published in 2014. In 2019 he published a theological commentary on the Pastoral Epistles. Bray is a minister in the Church of England.
Education
- MLitt, DLitt, University of Paris-Sorbonne
- BA, McGill University
Selected Books
- A Companion to the Book of Common Prayer, Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2023.
- Documents of the English Reformation, 3rd. ed. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2019.
- Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles. London: T&T Clark, 2019.
- Doing Theology with the Reformers. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2019.
- The Institution of a Christian Man. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2018.
- Procès-verbal de l’assemblée générale extraordinaire du clergé de France. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2017.
- The Church: A Theological and Historical Account. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016.
- God Has Spoken: A History of Christian Theology. Wheaton: Crossway, 2014.
- God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology. Wheaton: Crossway, 2012.
- The Faith We Confess: An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles. London: The Latimer Trust, 2009.
- Records of Convocation (20 vols.). Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2005-2006.
Involvement
- Ecclesiastical Law Society
- Church of England Record Society
- Latimer Trust
- Tyndale Fellowship
