The Revd Dr David Hilborn BA, MA, PhD SFHEA is Academic Dean of the London School of Theology. He was previously Principal of Moorlands College and St John’s College, Nottingham. Before that, he helped to establish St Mellitus College, London. He was Head of Theology at the Evangelical Alliance UK from 1997 and 2006 and chaired its Theological Advisory Group from 2016 to 2024. 

David is an ordained Anglican and was a member of the Church of England’s Faith and Order Commission from 2006 to 2016. He is a graduate of the Universities of Nottingham (BA, PhD) and Oxford (MA), is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and has led or served on the ministry teams of several local churches. He has authored or edited several books, including The Nature of Hell, ‘Toronto’ in Perspective, One Body in Christ: The History and Significance of the Evangelical Alliance, Movement for Change: Evangelical Perspectives on Social Transformation (Paternoster), The Atonement Debate (Zondervan), and Anglicans and Pentecostals in Dialogue (Pickwick). For the past decade, he has been active in developing Anglican-Pentecostal relations and currently serves on the English Anglican-Pentecostal Steering Group, the International Pentecostal-Anglican Commission, and the World Council of Churches Joint Consultative Group on Pentecostalism. He has supervised a number of doctoral theses in the areas of Evangelical theology and history, Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, and ecumenism. 

David has successfully supervised a range of doctoral theses in the areas of evangelical history, theology and ethics, ecumenical theology, the theology of worship, and the interface between theology and linguistics. 

• Anglicans and Pentecostals in Dialogue (joint ed. w. Simo Frestadius). Eugene, Or: Wipf & Stock, 2023. 

• ‘Introduction’ (with Simo Frestadius), in David Hilborn & Simo Frestaius (eds) Anglicans and Pentecostals in Dialogue. Eugene, Or: Wipf & Stock, 2023, pp.1-16. 

• ‘Anglican Ordination’, in David Hilborn & Simo Frestadius (eds), Anglicans and Pentecostals in Dialogue. Eugene, Or: Wipf & Stock, 2023, pp.79-101. 

• ‘Anglicans, Pentecostals and Ecumenism’, in Joe Aldred (ed.), Pentecostals and Charismatics in Britain: An Anthology. London: SCM, 2019, Ch. 8. 

• Reviewing the Discourse of ‘Spiritual Abuse’: Logical Problems and Unintended Consequences. Evangelical Alliance Theology Advisory Group, London: EAUK, 2018 (Editor and Lead Writer). 

• ‘The Reformation, Evangelicals and Roman Catholicism’, Partnership, 60 (Summer 2017), 37-43. 

• ‘Key Theological Developments in Evangelical Social Ethics Since the 1970s’, Crucible (Journal of Christian Social Ethics), April 2017, pp.11-24. 

• ‘Evangelical Models of Leadership: General Trends and Anglican Expressions’, in Loveday Alexander & Mike Higton (eds), Faithful Improvisation: Theological Reflections on Church Leadership, London: Church House, 2016, pp.166-185. 

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