Bruce Barber is a retired Uniting Church minister. He was educated in Melbourne, completing Arts and Divinity degrees, followed by post-graduate study in Europe and the United States of America from 1963 to 1965. After two years of parish ministry, he spent his remaining working life engaged in theological education, first in Perth, Western Australia, and later in Melbourne where for more than twenty years he was Dean of the United Faculty of Theology. In both places, he taught in the fields of systematic theology and homiletics.