Theological Theology

Essays in Honour of John Webster

R. David Nelson, Darren Sarisky, Justin Stratis, R. David Nelson, Darren Sarisky, Justin Stratis

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9780567682116
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567664952
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

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