Keith Clements: born 1943. Graduate of Cambridge and Oxford Universities with doctorate from Bristol University, England. Served as pastor of Baptist congregations in UK 1967-1977; 1977-1990 Tutor at Bristol Baptist College and part-time lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies, Bristol University; 1990-97 Secretary for International Affairs, Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland; 1997-2005 General Secretary, Conference of European Churches, Geneva. Now in active retirement in the west of England and occupied with writing and lecturing as far afield as USA, South Africa and Australia.
He has published extensively with a specialist interest in Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and ecumenical and social theology. In addition to A Patriotism for Today and What Freedom? his works on Bonhoeffer include editing Volume 13, London 1933-1935 in the English Translation Series of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works (2006) and The SPCK Introduction to Bonhoeffer (2010).