Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: agere sequitur esse 2. 'Where Christ is': Christology and Ethics 3. The dignity of creatures 4. Mercy 5. Dolent gaudentque: Sorrow in the Christian life 6. Courage 7. Mortification and Vivification 8. Sins of Speech 9. On the theology of the intellectual life 10. God, Theology, Universities 11. Intellectual Patience Index
This second volume opens up the topic of created intellect to consider the moral and intellectual acts of God's human creatures.
John Webster is Chair of Divinity at St Mary's College, University of Aberdeen, UK.
Well worth reading, dwelling upon, and discussing.
*Princeton Theological Review*
Webster’s untimely death prevented him from completing his larger
systematic project, and these two volumes can only whet the
appetite of those who looked forward to that project. Yet, they may
also stir up a thirst for something much greater than his dogmatics
or any work of pilgrim theology for that matter. They may stir up a
thirst for the living waters, and in so doing encourage pilgrims on
their journey toward the visio Dei.
*Theology and History*
John Webster has few peers, and this book serves further notice to
the extraordinary breadth and calibre of his theological project.
Always in service to Jesus Christ, Webster lays our basic
components of the moral life, seamlessly and astutely drawing upon
the Fathers, Aquinas, Calvin, John Owen, and Barth. One reads
Webster with amazement and appreciation that theology, in a time of
much superficiality, can again be so deeply and richly theocentric.
This is a work of a contemporary master to whom all Christians must
attend.
*Matthew Levering, Mundelein Seminary, USA*
Written with the luminous clarity, scholarly depth and intellectual
rigour for which John Webster is renowned, this collection reflects
on the practical and ethical settings of the Christian life.
Pursuing a resolutely theological approach to the dispositions and
practices of faith, the various essays here will repay careful
study and consideration.
*David Fergusson, University of Edinburgh, UK*
Despite the diversity of the topics covered there is a very clear
and distinctive unity of argument that is exhibited here.
*Reviews in Religion and Theology*
These articles are indeed those of a genuine Christian theologian
at his prime.
*Regent's Reviews*
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