John Webster (theologian)

John Bainbridge Webster

Webster began his career as a chaplain and tutor at St John's College, Durham University (1982–86) and went on to teach systematic theology at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto – one of the seven colleges that comprise the Toronto School of Theology (1986–1996) – before becoming the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford, a prestigious chair in which he was immediately preceded by Rowan Williams who later became Archbishop of Wales (1999–2002) and then Canterbury (2002–2012). During Webster's seven-year tenure at Oxford (1996–2003), he also served as a canon of Christ Church. In 2003, he was installed in the Chair of Systematic Theology at King's College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. In Summer 2013, he became Chair of Divinity at the University of St Andrews. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005.^[6]

Together with Colin Gunton (1940–2003), Webster co-founded the International Journal of Systematic Theology. He was also a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church and of the Scottish Journal of Theology Monographs. He was the series editor of The Great Theologians, Barth Studies for Ashgate, and co-editor for the Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology (2007).

Theological commorancy

His PhD thesis was on the German Lutheran systematic and philosophical theologian

In September 2007, Webster delivered the inaugural lectures of the Kantzer Lectures in Revealed Theology moderated by Kevin Vanhoozer through the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.

Selected works

Thesis

• Webster, John B. (1982). Distinguishing Between God and Man: Aspects of the Theology of Eberhard Jüngel (PhD). University of Cambridge.

Translations or works on Eberhard Jüngel

• Webster, John B. (1986). Eberhard Jüngel: An Introduction to His Theology (1st ed.). Cambridge:
  ISBN 978-0-521-30708-6
  .
• Jüngel, Eberhard (1989). Theological Essays I. Translated by Webster, John B. (2nd ed.). London: T & T Clark.
  ISBN 978-0-567-09502-2
  .
• Jüngel, Eberhard (1995). Webster, John B. (ed.). Theological Essays II. Translated by Neufeldt-Fast, Arnold; Webster, John B. Edinburgh:
  ISBN 978-0-567-09706-4
  .
• Jüngel, Eberhard (2001). God's Being Is in Becoming: The Trinitarian Being of God in the Theology of Karl Barth. Translated by Webster, John B. London: T & T Clark.
  ISBN 978-0-567-08706-5
  .
• ———, ed. (1994). Possibilities of Theology: Studies in the Theology of Eberhard Jüngel in his 60th Year. Edinburgh: T & T Clark.
  ISBN 978-0-567-09720-0
  .

• ——— (1995). Barth's Ethics of Reconciliation. Cambridge:
  ISBN 978-0-521-04411-0
  .
• ——— (1998). Barth's Moral Theology: Human Action in Barth's Thought. Edinburgh: T & T Clark.
• ———, ed. (2000). The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth. Cambridge companions to religion. Cambridge:
  ISBN 978-0-521-58476-0
  .
• ——— (2004). Karl Barth. Outstanding Christian Thinkers (2nd ed.). London: T & T Clark.
  ISBN 978-0-8264-5078-4
  .
• ——— (2004). Barth's Early Theology. London: T & T Clark.
• ——— (2005). Barth's Earlier Theology: Four Studies. London: T & T Clark.
  ISBN 978-0-567-08352-4
  .
• ———; Yuen, Alfred H. (2014). Barth's theological ontology of Holy Scripture. Princeton theological monograph series. Vol. 211. Eugene, OR:
  ISBN 978-1-620-32911-5
  .

• ——— (2001). Word and Church: Essays in Church Dogmatics. London: T & T Clark.
  ISBN 978-0-567-03066-5
  .
• ——— (2003). Holiness. Grand Rapids, MI:
  ISBN 978-0-802-82215-4
  .
• ——— (2003). Holy Scripture: A Dogmatic Sketch. Current issues in theology. Vol. 1. Cambridge:
  ISBN 978-0-521-83118-5
  .
• ——— (2005). Confessing God: Essays in Christian Dogmatics II. London: T & T Clark.
  ISBN 978-0-567-08377-7
  .
• ——— (2010). Holiness (2nd ed.). London:
  ISBN 978-0-334-02895-6
  .
• ——— (2012). The Domain of the Word of God: Scripture and Theological Reason. T & T Clark theology. London: T & T Clark.
  ISBN 978-0-567-212948
  .
• ——— (2015). God Without Measure: Essays in Christian Doctrine - Volume 1 (God and the Works of God). London: T & T Clark.
  ISBN 978-0-5671-6513-8
  .

• ———; Schner, George P. (2000). Theology after Liberalism: a reader. Blackwell readings in modern theology. Oxford ; Malden, MA:
  ISBN 978-0-6312-0563-0
  .
• ———, ed. (2007). The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-199-24576-5
  .

• ——— (2004). "The Holiness and Love of God". Scottish Journal of Theology. 57 (3): 249–68.
  S2CID 170521304
  .
• ——— (2004). "On Evangelical Ecclesiology". Ecclesiology. 1: 9–35.
  doi:10.1177/174413660400100101
  .
• ——— (2008). "Biblical Reasoning". Anglican Theological Review. 90: 733–51.
• ——— (2009). "Principles of Systematic Theology". International Journal of Systematic Theology. 11: 56–71.
  doi:10.1111/j.1468-2400.2008.00423.x
  .
• ——— (2010). "Trinity and Creation". International Journal of Systematic Theology. 12: 4–19.
  doi:10.1111/j.1468-2400.2009.00489.x
  .
• ——— (2015). "Sins of Speech". Studies in Christian Ethics. 28: 35–48.
  S2CID 146919183
  .
• ——— (2015). "What Makes Theology Theological?" (PDF). Journal of Analytic Theology. 3: 17–28.
  S2CID 170568964. Archived from the original
  (PDF) on 7 February 2020.