Nimmo was awarded a John Templeton Award for Theological Promise in 2009, for his book Being in Action: The Theological Shape of Barth's Ethical Vision (2007), which was based on his doctoral thesis at Edinburgh. He is also the author of Karl Barth: A Guide for the Perplexed (2016), co-Editor with David Fergusson of the University of Edinburgh of the Cambridge Companion to Reformed Theology (2016), and co-Editor with Paul Dafydd Jones of the University of Virginia of the Oxford Handbook of Karl Barth (2017). He is currently completing a monograph entitled Karl Barth and the Lord’s Supper: Thinking With and After Barth on the Lord’s Supper (2021), and preparing a further monograph on the doctrine of sanctification.
