Confessing God: Essays in Christian Dogmatics II
Overview
Put together as a companion volume to his earlier volume, Word and Church, in this book John Webster begins to give voice to a reordered conception of the substance of Christian teaching, at the heart of which lies a discovery of the content and consequences of Christian teaching about God’s perfection.
Webster gives the readers a worked example of ‘theological theology’, that is, Christian theology which takes its rise in the Christian confession of the gospel which seeks to hear, celebrate and commend.
- Title: Confessing God: Essays in Christian Dogmatics II
- Author: John Webster
- Series: The Cornerstones Series
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian theology; Theology; Religion › Theology; Religion › Christian Theology--Systematic
- ISBNs: 9780567658876, 9780567658883, 9780567658890, 9780567132307, 0567658872, 0567658880, 0567658899, 0567132307
- Resource ID: LLS:CNFSSNGGDDGMTCS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:51:37Z
John Webster (1955–2016) was a distinguished British theologian who was strongly influenced by Karl Barth and a member of the Anglican Communion. He began his career as chaplain and tutor St. John‘s College, Durham University and the became Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, following Rowan Williams. During his time at Oxford he also served as canon of Christ Church. In 2003, he became the Chair of Systematic Theology at King‘s College, University of Aberdeen.
Working with Colin Gunton, Webster cofounded the International Journal of Systematic Theology, and served as an editorial board member International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church and the Scottish Journal of Theology, and coedited the Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology. He authored several other books including Confronted by Grace: Mediatations of a Theologian, Karl Barth, Confessing God, Holiness, Word and Church, and Domain of the Word: Scripture and Theological Reason.