Professor William Hazlett
- Honorary Professorial Research Fellow (School of Critical Studies)
Research interests
Research interests
- Text-critical editions of the Scots Confession of Faith (1560), the Spanish Confessión de Fe (1560), and the Irish Articles of Religion (1615) for the Edition Reformierter Bekenntnisschriften directed by the 'Rat der Evangelischen Kirche Deutschlands'
- Editor of the Reformation and Renaissance Review
- Editorial Board (Amsterdam) for the edition of Opera latina Martini Buceri
- Member of AHRC Peer Review College
- In Irish Presbyterian history, I have been doing research on William Steel Dickson (1744-1824), New Light minister and political radical
Biography
BA (Belfast), BD (St Andrews), Dr theol. (Münster), DLitt (St Andrews), DD (h.c. Belfast)
Growing up in Ireland, it was not hard for me to have an awareness of religious history, so that it was natural enough to wonder how 'varieties of Christianity', especially conflicting ones, and even Christianity itself, came about. I subscribe to the opinion of Cicero that without good knowledge of history, we remain infants. I had the good luck to have had excellent history teachers at school. In my Arts degree I specialized in history, and again benefited from having inspiring teachers.
Subsequently I studied theology at St Andrews, but it was not until my final year that Church History in particular caught my imagination. Thereafter I had the good fortune to be able to pursue doctoral studies in Reformation Studies in Germany and France under some leading figures in the field. I developed a special interest in the Strasbourg Reformer Martin Bucer, whose ecumenical and moderate approach to religious controversy appealed to me.
After that, I worked for two years in the Reformation Research Institute in Geneva under the inimitable Pierre Fraenkel. The skills acquired in these early years have enabled me to do extensive research in aspects of Reformation and Renaissance studies. And partly due to WHC Frend in my time lecturing at Glasgow, I have also ventured into Early Church and Patristic eras, particularly as perceived in Reformation times.
Teaching
- General history of Christianity
- Early Church history
- Early modern Church history
- History of Christian thought
Postgraduate supervision
- Early Church history
- Renaissance and Reformation studies
- Eighteenth century religious history in Scotland and Ireland
Publications
2023
Hazlett, I. (2023) Concilium Aberdoniense Ecclesiae Scoticanae 1616/The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Aberdeen, 1616. In: Melloni, A. and Braghi, G. (eds.) Synods of the Churches of and after the Reformation: The Dawn of the Reformation (16th-17th Centuries). Series: Conciliorum oecumenicorum generaliumque decreta, 6/1/2. Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 999-1090. ISBN 9782503545066
2021
Hazlett, W. I. P. (Ed.) (2021) A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638: Frameworks of Change and Development. Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, 100. Brill: Leiden ; Boston. ISBN 9789004329720
Hazlett, W. I. P. (2021) Introduction. In: Hazlett, W. I. P. (ed.) A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638: Frameworks of Change and Development. Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition (100). Brill: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9789004329720 (doi: 10.1163/9789004335950_002)
Hazlett, W. I. P. (2021) Reformation entry into Gaelic Scotland, 1567‒1630. In: Hazlett, W. I. P. (ed.) A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638: Frameworks of Change and Development. Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition (100). Brill: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 542-577. ISBN 9789004329720 (doi: 10.1163/9789004335950_023)
Hazlett, I. (2021) Detecting interactions between Zurich and Reformation Scotland. In: Albisser, A. and Opitz, P. (eds.) Die Zürcher Reformation in Europa: Beiträge der Tagung des Instituts für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte 6.–8. Februar 2019 in Zürich. Series: Zürcher Beiträge zur Reformationsgeschichte (29). Theologischer Verlag Zürich: Zürich, pp. 599-614. ISBN 9783290183042
2020
Hazlett, I. (2020) Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval, by Heinz Schilling, translated by Rona Johnston, New York, Oxford University Press, 2017. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 22(1), pp. 80-90. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2020.1715552)[Book Review]
2019
Hazlett, W. (2019) Reformed theology in confessions and catechisms to c.1620. In: Fergusson, D. and Elliott, M. W. (eds.) The History of Scottish Theology, Volume 1: Celtic Origins to Reformed Orthodoxy. Oxford University Press, pp. 189-209. ISBN 9780198759331
Hazlett, W. I. P. (2019) Religion and politics in William Steel Dickson DD (1744‒1824): Ulster-Scot Irishman and his modernizing thought-world. Scottish Church History, 48(1), pp. 34-67. (doi: 10.3366/sch.2019.0003)
Hazlett, I. (2019) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 21(1), pp. 1-2. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2019.1576268)
Hazlett, I. (2019) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 21(2), pp. 89-90. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2019.1627704)
Hazlett, W. I. P. (2019) Foreword. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 21(3), p. 169. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2019.1676955)
2018
Hazlett, I. (2018) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 20(1), pp. 1-3. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2018.1435177)
Hazlett, I. (2018) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 20(2), pp. 101-102. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2018.1488350)
Hazlett, I. (2018) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 20(3), pp. 185-186. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2018.1532726)
Hazlett, W. I. P. (2018) Martin Bucer, der dritte deutsche Reformator. Zum Ertrag der Edition der Deutschen Schriften Martin Bucers. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 20(3), pp. 263-265. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2018.1532742)[Book Review]
2017
Hazlett, I. (2017) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 19(1), pp. 2-4. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2017.1287325)
Hazlett, I. (2017) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 19(2), pp. 85-86. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2017.1341680)
Hazlett, I. (2017) Martin Bucer: No to a council of chief priests – Yes to church unity. In: Catto, M. and Prosperi, A. (eds.) Trent and Beyond. The Council, Other Powers, Other Cultures. Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 351-366. ISBN 9782503568980
Hazlett, I. (2017) Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer, by Scott H. Hendrix, Yale University Press (2015). Faith and Freedom, 70(184), pp. 60-64. [Book Review]
Hazlett, W. (2017) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 19(3), pp. 169-170. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2017.1392415)
Hazlett, W. (2017) Impact of German Reformation ideas beyond the seas: the example of the »Ile of Brittain«. In: Grigore, M.-D. and Wien, U. A. (eds.) Exportgut Reformation: Ihr Transfer in Kontaktzonen des 16. Jahrhunderts und die Gegenwart evangelischer Kirchen in Europa. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 85-116. ISBN 9783525101544
2016
Hazlett, I. (2016) Church and Church/State relations in the Post-Reformation Reformed tradition. In: Lehner, U. L., Muller, R. A. and Roeber, A. G. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: New York, NY. ISBN 9780199937943 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199937943.013.48)
2013
Hazlett, I. (2013) A continental misconception in 1603 of King James VI & I as an ultra-Protestant, with special reference to a Huguenot textual subterfuge. In: Hobbs, R. G. and Noblesse-Rocher, A. (eds.) Bible, Histoire et Société. Mélanges offerts à Bernard Roussel. Series: Bibliothèque de l'École des hautes études. Section des sciences religieuses (163). Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 207-224. ISBN 9782503551180
2010
Hazlett, I. (2010) Confessio Scotica posterior, 1581 = The King’s Confession or Negative Confession. In: Mühling, A. and Opitz, P. (eds.) Reformierte Bekenntnisschriften Vol. 3.1. Neukirchener: Neukirchen-Vluyn, pp. 185-228. ISBN 9783788725280
Hazlett, I. (2010) Fixing the boundary between the old and the new faiths: Erasmus and Bucer. In: Simon, W. and Hamm, B. (eds.) Martin Bucer zwischen den Reichstagen von Augsburg (1530) und Regensburg (1532). Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, pp. 137-154. ISBN 9783161505997
Hazlett, I. (2010) Vestures of the Faith: three Scottish confessions, 1560-1616. In: Stewart, J. C. (ed.) A Useable Past? Belief, Worship and Song in Reformation Context. Lectures Commissioned by the Church of Scotland Chalmers Trust to Mark the 450th Anniversary of the Scottish Reformation. Church Service Society: Edinburgh, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9780992772505
2009
Hazlett, I. (2009) Calvin and the British Isles. In: Selderhuis, H. J. (ed.) The Calvin Handbook. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids and Cambridge, pp. 117-125. ISBN 9780802862303
Hazlett, I. (2009) Confessio Scotica 1560 = The Scots Confession. In: Mühling, A. and Opitz, P. (eds.) Reformierte Bekenntnisschriften Vol. 2.1. Neukirchener: Neukirchen-Vluyn, pp. 209-300. ISBN 9783788723040
Hazlett, I. (2009) Confessión de Fé Christiana 1559/60-1560/61 = The Spanish Confession of Faith. In: Mühling, A. and Opitz, P. (eds.) Reformierte Bekenntnisschriften Vol. 2.1. Neukirchener: Neukirchen-Vluyn, pp. 117-208. ISBN 9783788723040
2004
Hazlett, W.I. (2004) The thought of Martin Bucer. In: Bagchi, D.V.N. and Steinmetz, D.C. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology. Series: Cambridge companions to religion. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 100-113. ISBN 9780521772242
Hazlett, W.I. (2004) War and peace in Christianity. In: Schmidt-Leukel, P. (ed.) War and Peace in World Religions. SCM Canterbury Press, pp. 99-147. ISBN 0334029384
Hazlett, W.I.P. (2004) Frend, William Hugh Clifford (1916–200. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Bibliography. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198614111 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/95984)
2003
Hazlett, W.I. (2003) Was Martin Bucer an Aérian? The question of praying for the dead. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 4(2), pp. 135-151.
Hazlett, W.I. (2003) The Reformation in Britain and Ireland. An Introduction. T and T Clark International (Continuum Imprint). ISBN 9780567082800
2002
Hazlett, W.I. (2002) Marie, reine des écossais, et la liberté de conscience: la mise au monde d'une idée mort-née. In: Wanegffelen, T. (ed.) De Michel de l'Hospital à l'édit de Nantes. Politique et Religion Face aux Églises. Series: Collection "Histoires Croises". Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal: Clermont-Ferrand, pp. 33-50. ISBN 284516159X
Hazlett, W.I. (2002) Prophecy and politics: the exchanges between John Knox and Mary, Queen of Scots, on religious freedom of conscience. In: Hammann, G., Rose, M. and Arnold, M. (eds.) Histoire et Herméneutique: Mélanges pour Gottfried Hammann. Labor et Fides: Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 184-196. ISBN 9782830910681
Hazlett, W.I. (2002) Students at Glasgow University from 1747 to 1768 connected with Ireland: an analytical probe. In: Patton, W.D. and Holmes, F. (eds.) Ebb and Flow: Essays in Church History in Honour of R. Finlay G. Holmes. Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland: Belfast, UK, pp. 20-50. ISBN 9780953852642
2000
Bucer, M. (2000) Defensio Adversus Axioma Catholicum, id est criminationem R.P. Roberti Episcopi Abrincensis (1534). [Scholarly Editions]
Articles
Hazlett, W. I. P. (2019) Religion and politics in William Steel Dickson DD (1744‒1824): Ulster-Scot Irishman and his modernizing thought-world. Scottish Church History, 48(1), pp. 34-67. (doi: 10.3366/sch.2019.0003)
Hazlett, I. (2019) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 21(1), pp. 1-2. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2019.1576268)
Hazlett, I. (2019) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 21(2), pp. 89-90. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2019.1627704)
Hazlett, W. I. P. (2019) Foreword. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 21(3), p. 169. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2019.1676955)
Hazlett, I. (2018) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 20(1), pp. 1-3. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2018.1435177)
Hazlett, I. (2018) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 20(2), pp. 101-102. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2018.1488350)
Hazlett, I. (2018) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 20(3), pp. 185-186. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2018.1532726)
Hazlett, I. (2017) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 19(1), pp. 2-4. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2017.1287325)
Hazlett, I. (2017) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 19(2), pp. 85-86. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2017.1341680)
Hazlett, W. (2017) Editorial. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 19(3), pp. 169-170. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2017.1392415)
Hazlett, W.I. (2003) Was Martin Bucer an Aérian? The question of praying for the dead. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 4(2), pp. 135-151.
Books
Hazlett, W.I. (2003) The Reformation in Britain and Ireland. An Introduction. T and T Clark International (Continuum Imprint). ISBN 9780567082800
Book Sections
Hazlett, I. (2023) Concilium Aberdoniense Ecclesiae Scoticanae 1616/The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Aberdeen, 1616. In: Melloni, A. and Braghi, G. (eds.) Synods of the Churches of and after the Reformation: The Dawn of the Reformation (16th-17th Centuries). Series: Conciliorum oecumenicorum generaliumque decreta, 6/1/2. Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 999-1090. ISBN 9782503545066
Hazlett, W. I. P. (2021) Introduction. In: Hazlett, W. I. P. (ed.) A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638: Frameworks of Change and Development. Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition (100). Brill: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9789004329720 (doi: 10.1163/9789004335950_002)
Hazlett, W. I. P. (2021) Reformation entry into Gaelic Scotland, 1567‒1630. In: Hazlett, W. I. P. (ed.) A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638: Frameworks of Change and Development. Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition (100). Brill: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 542-577. ISBN 9789004329720 (doi: 10.1163/9789004335950_023)
Hazlett, I. (2021) Detecting interactions between Zurich and Reformation Scotland. In: Albisser, A. and Opitz, P. (eds.) Die Zürcher Reformation in Europa: Beiträge der Tagung des Instituts für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte 6.–8. Februar 2019 in Zürich. Series: Zürcher Beiträge zur Reformationsgeschichte (29). Theologischer Verlag Zürich: Zürich, pp. 599-614. ISBN 9783290183042
Hazlett, W. (2019) Reformed theology in confessions and catechisms to c.1620. In: Fergusson, D. and Elliott, M. W. (eds.) The History of Scottish Theology, Volume 1: Celtic Origins to Reformed Orthodoxy. Oxford University Press, pp. 189-209. ISBN 9780198759331
Hazlett, I. (2017) Martin Bucer: No to a council of chief priests – Yes to church unity. In: Catto, M. and Prosperi, A. (eds.) Trent and Beyond. The Council, Other Powers, Other Cultures. Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 351-366. ISBN 9782503568980
Hazlett, W. (2017) Impact of German Reformation ideas beyond the seas: the example of the »Ile of Brittain«. In: Grigore, M.-D. and Wien, U. A. (eds.) Exportgut Reformation: Ihr Transfer in Kontaktzonen des 16. Jahrhunderts und die Gegenwart evangelischer Kirchen in Europa. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 85-116. ISBN 9783525101544
Hazlett, I. (2016) Church and Church/State relations in the Post-Reformation Reformed tradition. In: Lehner, U. L., Muller, R. A. and Roeber, A. G. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: New York, NY. ISBN 9780199937943 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199937943.013.48)
Hazlett, I. (2013) A continental misconception in 1603 of King James VI & I as an ultra-Protestant, with special reference to a Huguenot textual subterfuge. In: Hobbs, R. G. and Noblesse-Rocher, A. (eds.) Bible, Histoire et Société. Mélanges offerts à Bernard Roussel. Series: Bibliothèque de l'École des hautes études. Section des sciences religieuses (163). Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 207-224. ISBN 9782503551180
Hazlett, I. (2010) Confessio Scotica posterior, 1581 = The King’s Confession or Negative Confession. In: Mühling, A. and Opitz, P. (eds.) Reformierte Bekenntnisschriften Vol. 3.1. Neukirchener: Neukirchen-Vluyn, pp. 185-228. ISBN 9783788725280
Hazlett, I. (2010) Fixing the boundary between the old and the new faiths: Erasmus and Bucer. In: Simon, W. and Hamm, B. (eds.) Martin Bucer zwischen den Reichstagen von Augsburg (1530) und Regensburg (1532). Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, pp. 137-154. ISBN 9783161505997
Hazlett, I. (2010) Vestures of the Faith: three Scottish confessions, 1560-1616. In: Stewart, J. C. (ed.) A Useable Past? Belief, Worship and Song in Reformation Context. Lectures Commissioned by the Church of Scotland Chalmers Trust to Mark the 450th Anniversary of the Scottish Reformation. Church Service Society: Edinburgh, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9780992772505
Hazlett, I. (2009) Calvin and the British Isles. In: Selderhuis, H. J. (ed.) The Calvin Handbook. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids and Cambridge, pp. 117-125. ISBN 9780802862303
Hazlett, I. (2009) Confessio Scotica 1560 = The Scots Confession. In: Mühling, A. and Opitz, P. (eds.) Reformierte Bekenntnisschriften Vol. 2.1. Neukirchener: Neukirchen-Vluyn, pp. 209-300. ISBN 9783788723040
Hazlett, I. (2009) Confessión de Fé Christiana 1559/60-1560/61 = The Spanish Confession of Faith. In: Mühling, A. and Opitz, P. (eds.) Reformierte Bekenntnisschriften Vol. 2.1. Neukirchener: Neukirchen-Vluyn, pp. 117-208. ISBN 9783788723040
Hazlett, W.I. (2004) The thought of Martin Bucer. In: Bagchi, D.V.N. and Steinmetz, D.C. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology. Series: Cambridge companions to religion. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 100-113. ISBN 9780521772242
Hazlett, W.I. (2004) War and peace in Christianity. In: Schmidt-Leukel, P. (ed.) War and Peace in World Religions. SCM Canterbury Press, pp. 99-147. ISBN 0334029384
Hazlett, W.I.P. (2004) Frend, William Hugh Clifford (1916–200. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Bibliography. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198614111 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/95984)
Hazlett, W.I. (2002) Marie, reine des écossais, et la liberté de conscience: la mise au monde d'une idée mort-née. In: Wanegffelen, T. (ed.) De Michel de l'Hospital à l'édit de Nantes. Politique et Religion Face aux Églises. Series: Collection "Histoires Croises". Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal: Clermont-Ferrand, pp. 33-50. ISBN 284516159X
Hazlett, W.I. (2002) Prophecy and politics: the exchanges between John Knox and Mary, Queen of Scots, on religious freedom of conscience. In: Hammann, G., Rose, M. and Arnold, M. (eds.) Histoire et Herméneutique: Mélanges pour Gottfried Hammann. Labor et Fides: Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 184-196. ISBN 9782830910681
Hazlett, W.I. (2002) Students at Glasgow University from 1747 to 1768 connected with Ireland: an analytical probe. In: Patton, W.D. and Holmes, F. (eds.) Ebb and Flow: Essays in Church History in Honour of R. Finlay G. Holmes. Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland: Belfast, UK, pp. 20-50. ISBN 9780953852642
Book Reviews
Hazlett, I. (2020) Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval, by Heinz Schilling, translated by Rona Johnston, New York, Oxford University Press, 2017. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 22(1), pp. 80-90. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2020.1715552)[Book Review]
Hazlett, W. I. P. (2018) Martin Bucer, der dritte deutsche Reformator. Zum Ertrag der Edition der Deutschen Schriften Martin Bucers. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 20(3), pp. 263-265. (doi: 10.1080/14622459.2018.1532742)[Book Review]
Hazlett, I. (2017) Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer, by Scott H. Hendrix, Yale University Press (2015). Faith and Freedom, 70(184), pp. 60-64. [Book Review]
Edited Books
Hazlett, W. I. P. (Ed.) (2021) A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638: Frameworks of Change and Development. Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, 100. Brill: Leiden ; Boston. ISBN 9789004329720
Scholarly Editions
Bucer, M. (2000) Defensio Adversus Axioma Catholicum, id est criminationem R.P. Roberti Episcopi Abrincensis (1534). [Scholarly Editions]