Steven R. Harmon

Steven R. Harmon is Professor of Historical Theology at Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, USA. He is the author of Encountering Pope Leo XIV: Baptist Reflections on the Beginning of a Pontificate (Nurturing Faith, 2025), Baptists, Catholics, and the Whole Church: Partners in the Pilgrimage to Unity (New City Press, 2021), Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future: Story, Tradition, and the Recovery of Community (Baylor University Press, 2016), Ecumenism Means You, Too: Ordinary Christians and the Quest for Christian Unity (Cascade Books, 2010), Towards Baptist Catholicity: Essays on Tradition and the Baptist Vision (Paternoster, 2006), and Every Knee Should Bow: Biblical Rationales for Universal Salvation in Early Christian Thought (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and co-editor Seeds of the Church: Towards an Ecumenical Baptist Ecclesiology (Cascade Books, 2022) and Sources of Light: Resources for Baptist Churches Practicing Theology (Mercer University Press, 2020). He has represented the Baptist World Alliance in international ecumenical dialogues with the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, in pre-conversations with representatives of the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate, and as a member of the plenary Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches.