Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Omnia... percractantur in sacra doctrina sub ratione Dei. On the matter of Christian theology God in Himself 2. Life in and of himself 3. Eternal generation 4. Christology, Theology, Economy. The Place of Christology in Systematic Theology 5. One who is Son God's Outer Works 6. Trinity and Creation 7. 'Love is also a lover of life': creatio ex nihilo and creaturely goodness 8. Non ex aequo: God's relation to creatures 9. One the theology of providence 10. 'It was the will of the Lord to bruise him': soteriology and the doctrine of God 11. Rector et iudex super omnia genera doctrinarum? The place of the doctrine of justification 12. 'In the society of God': some principles of ecclesiology 13. Purity and Plenitude: Reflections on Congar's Tradition and Traditions Epilogue 14. What Makes Theology Theological? Index
The first of two volumes assembling a selection of the author's essays and papers, which explore a range of topics in Christian doctrine
John Webster is Professor of Systematic Theology, University of St Andrews, UK.
These essays are essential reading for anyone wishing to think
through moral theology on their way to pressing practical
considerations.
*Currents in Theology and Mission*
Webster’s commitment to comment on the nature of theology, the
place of each doctrine as well as its content, and to wrestle with
people who disagree on both topics, makes for a read which is, in a
particular sense of the word, entertaining. …[God Without Measure,
Vol. 1] offers an appeal to most every theologically minded reader
regarding where theology has been and where it is going.
*Princeton Theological Review*
The late John Webster had an impressive grasp of the scope of
theological science. He believed that theology involved the
contemplation of God and of all things in relation to him. In his
own words, ‘Theology is about everything…it is the science of all
things’(Virtue). [God without Measure] is perhaps his single most
comprehensive illustration of this claim.
*Anglican 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*
God Without Measure is a mature work of theological revival. Many
of these essays are jewels in their own right, yet when read
together they reveal the working of a first-class theological mind
in its prime developing a consistent conception of the task of
systematics and directed at matters of first theology: God's life
in itself and then towards the world.
*Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USA*
These "working papers", though originally composed for a variety of
purposes, exhibit an extraordinary consistency and coherence.
Christian theology has a distinct shape, order and proportion. It
is concerned with "God and all things in relation to God", and the
order implied in this phrase - God first, all things in relation to
God second - is key. Webster returns again and again to these
simple convictions about the nature of theology, and shows in a
patient and quiet but rather powerful way the consequences they
have across a whole range of theological loci, and the resistance
they suggest to some of the most prominent stances in contemporary
Protestant theology.
*Karen Kilby, Durham University, 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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