Theological Theology: Essays in Honour of John Webster

✍ Scribed by R. David Nelson; Darren Sarisky; Justin Stratis (editors)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 380
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The areas of discussion include the nature and method of theology, Scripture and its interpretation, Christology and the doctrine of the Trinity, moral theology, and the reading and use of theological dialogue partners. The essays are written by eminent systematic theologians, theological ethicists, and biblical scholars from a wide range of Christian traditions.
The contributors to this volume appraise, extend and apply different aspects of the conception of “theological theology”. That theology should in fact be thoroughly theological means that theological discourse gains little by conforming to the canons of inquiry that govern other disciplines; it should rather focus its attention on its own unique subject, God and all things in relation to God, and should follow procedures that allow it to access and bear witness to these realities.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Contributors
1. Theological Theology
2. John
3. The Word Answering the Word: Opening the Space of Catholic Biblical Interpretation
4. Divine Sufficiency: Theology in the Presence of God
5. The Last Judgement
6. Proportion and Topography in Ecclesiology: A Working Paper on the Dogmatic Location of the Doctrine of the Church
7. How to be Caught by the Holy Spirit
8. Some Riffs on Thomas Aquinas’s De ente et essentia
9. New – Old – New: Theological Aphorisms
10. God’s Hiddenness and Belief in His Power
11. What is the Gospel?
12. Barth’s Critique of Schleiermacher Reconsidered
13. Aristotle’s Saviour
14. Webster and Ebeling on Christian Texts: A Placeholder for a Theological Theology of Language
15. What is Truth? McLeod Campbell Revisited
16. The Divine Perfections and the Economy: The Atonement
17. A Prolegomenon to an Account of Theological Interpretation of Scripture
18. The Sinlessness of Christ
19. Unconditional Love: Creatio ex Nihilo and the Covenant of Grace
20. ‘Exegesis I know, and Theology I know, but who are you?’ Acts 19 and the Theological Interpretation of Scripture
21. Does Historical Criticism Exist? A Contribution to Debate on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture
22. The Transcendence of Apophaticism
23. The Fourfold Chord: Theology and the Plurality of the Gospel Witness
John Webster – Chronology of Publications
Index