Colin Gunton
Colin Gunton | |
|---|---|
| Born | Colin Ewart Gunton 19 January 1941 Nottingham, England |
| Died | 6 May 2003 (aged 62) |
| Spouse |
Jennifer Osgathorpe (m. 1964) |
| Ecclesiastical career | |
| Religion | Christianity ( Reformed) |
| Church | United Reformed Church |
| Ordained | 1972 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Becoming and Being[1] (1973) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Jenson[2] |
| Influences | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | King's College, London |
| Doctoral students | |
Colin Ewart Gunton (19 January 1941 – 6 May 2003) was an English
Christoph Schwoebel of the Research Institute for Systematic Theology in 1988. Gunton was actively involved in the United Reformed Church
in the United Kingdom where he had been a minister since 1972.
Biography
Colin Ewart Gunton was born on 19 January 1941 in
King's College, London, in 1969. His dissertation was a study of the doctrine of God in the thought of Charles Hartshorne and Karl Barth, which was completed in 1973.[citation needed
]
Gunton was ordained in the
John Bainbridge Webster and Ralph del Colle
in 1999.
Gunton was awarded
honorary doctorates by the University of London (1993), the University of Aberdeen (1999), and shortly before his death, the University of Oxford (2003). He was also made a Fellow of King's College.[9] Gunton died on 6 May 2003.[10]
Writings
Gunton's most influential work was on the doctrines of creation and the Trinity. One of his most important books is The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity (1993), which has been described as "a profound analysis of the paradoxes and contradictions of Modernity."[11] The One, the Three and the Many remains a "majestical survey of the western intellectual tradition and a penetrating analysis of the modern condition."[11]
Published works
Major works
- Becoming and Being: The Doctrine of God in Charles Hartshorne and Karl Barth (1978, 2nd Ed. 2001)
- Yesterday and Today: A Study of Continuities in Christology (1983, 2nd Ed. 1997)
- Enlightenment and Alienation: An Essay Towards a Trinitarian Theology (1985)
- Actuality of Atonement: A Study of Metaphor, Rationality and the Christian Tradition (1988) ISBN 0-567-29220-7
- The Promise of Trinitarian Theology (1991, 2nd Ed. 1997) ISBN 0-567-08100-1
- Christ and Creation (1992) ISBN 0-85364-527-2
- The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity (1993) ISBN 0-521-42184-5
- A Brief Theology of Revelation (1995) ISBN 0-567-29293-2
- Theology Through the Theologians: Essays 1972-1995 (1996)
- The Triune Creator: A Historical and Systematic Study (1998) ISBN 0-8028-4575-4
- Intellect and Action (2000, T & T Clark))
- Theology Through Preaching (2001, T & T Clark)
- The Christian Faith: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine (2002) ISBN 0-631-21182-9
- Act and Being: Toward A Theology of the Divine Attributes (2002)
- Father, Son and Holy Spirit: Toward A Fully Trinitarian Theology (2003)
- Theologian as Preacher: Further Sermons from Colin Gunton (2007, T & T Clark)
- The Barth Lectures (2007, T & T Clark)
Edited works
- On Being the Church (1988)
- Persons, Divine and Human (1991)
- God and Freedom: Essays in Historical and Systematic Theology (1995)
- The Doctrine of Creation (1997)
- The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine (1997)
- Time, Trinity and Church: A Response to the theology of Robert Jenson (2000)
- The Practice of Theology: A Reader (2002) edited with Murray Rae and Stephen Holmes
- The Theology of Reconciliation (2003)
References
Footnotes
- ^ Gunton 1973.
- ^ Jenson 2010, p. 8.
- ^ a b "The Rev Professor Colin Gunton". The Times. London. 19 May 2003. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- ^ Webster 2010, p. 17.
- ^ Mulcahy 2007, p. 27.
- ^ Roest 2019, p. 145.
- ^ Mulcahy 2007, p. 28.
- ^ Roest 2019, p. 146.
- ^ McCormack 2005, p. 2; Mulcahy 2007, p. 28.
- ^ McCormack 2005, p. 3.
- ^ a b King's announces the 2003 Fellows
- This article includes content derived from Theopedia.com, which is under Creative Commons by-3.0 license.
Bibliography
- Gunton, Colin E. (1973). Becoming and Being: A Comparison of the Doctrine of God in Process Theology and in Karl Barth (DPhil thesis). Oxford: University of Oxford. OCLC 43092369.
- ISBN 978-0-567-55862-6.
- ISBN 978-0-567-16298-4.
- Mulcahy, Eamonn (2007). The Cause of Our Salvation: Soteriological Causality According to Some Modern British Theologians, 1988–1998. Rome: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana. ISBN 978-88-7839-080-5.
- Roest, Gert-Jan (2019). The Gospel in the Western Context: A Missiological Reading of Christology in Dialogue with Hendrikus Berkhof and Colin Gunton. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. S2CID 171891870.
- ISBN 978-0-567-55862-6.
Further reading
- Green, Bradley G. (2012). Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine: The Theology of Colin Gunton in Light of Augustine. Cambridge, England: James Clarke & Co. ISBN 978-0-227-68005-6.
External links
- Guardian Obituary by Stephen Holmes
- Society for the Study of Theology
- Profile: Colin E. Gunton, by Graham McFarlane
- Colin Gunton (1941 sic - 2003), by Robert Jenson
