William H. Willimon

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William H. Willimon is an American Methodist bishop, theologian, and prolific author known especially for his influential work in preaching and pastoral theology.

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Label Occurrences
William H. Willimon canonical 4

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian theologian
Christian writer
Methodist bishop
human
coAuthor Stanley Hauerwas
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt Emory University
Wofford College
Yale Divinity School
employer Duke Divinity School
Duke University
familyName Willimon
fieldOfWork ecclesiology
homiletics
pastoral theology
practical theology
genre Christian theology
pastoral theology
sermon
givenName William
hasInfluenced contemporary homiletics in North American Protestantism
hasOccupation preacher
hasPartnershipWith Stanley Hauerwas
knownFor critique of American civil religion
influential work in preaching
pastoral theology
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf United Methodist Church
movement mainline Protestantism
notableStudent many United Methodist clergy
notableWork Conversations with Barth on Preaching
The Pastor: A Theology of Ministry
surface form: Pastor: The Theology and Practice of Ordained Ministry

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Resident Aliens
The Pastor: A Theology of Ministry
Worship as Pastoral Care
occupation bishop
clergyman
theologian
university teacher
writer
placeOfWork North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church
positionHeld Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church
Dean of the Chapel at Duke University
religion Methodism
sexOrGender male
workLocation Durham, North Carolina

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

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- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: William H. Willimon
Description of subject: William H. Willimon is an American Methodist bishop, theologian, and prolific author known especially for his influential work in preaching and pastoral theology.

Referenced by (4)

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Stanley Hauerwas coAuthorWith William H. Willimon
Resident Aliens author William H. Willimon
Resident Aliens coAuthor William H. Willimon
Resident Aliens relatedWorkOfAuthor William H. Willimon