Confessing God: Essays in Christian Dogmatics II

by John Webster

Overview

Put together as a companion volume to his earlier volume, Word and Church, in this book John Webster begins to give voice to a reordered conception of the substance of Christian teaching, at the heart of which lies a discovery of the content and consequences of Christian teaching about God's perfection.

Webster gives the readers a worked example of 'theological theology', that is, Christian theology which takes its rise in the Christian confession of the gospel which seeks to hear, celebrate and commend.

This classic volume from one of the leading theologians in the world remains an important contribution to the field of systematic theology. For this Cornerstones edition Webster has written a new preface in which he sets the work against the current debate and his own current theology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567658890
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	01/28/2016
Series:	T&T Clark Cornerstones
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	905 KB

About the Author

John Webster is Chair of Divinity in the School of Divinity at the University of St Andrews, UK.
John Webster was Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen. His published work includes a number of books on the theology of Karl Barth, on the nature and interpretation of Scripture, and on Christian dogmatics, including Confessing God. He edited The Oxford Handbook to Systematic Theology, and is an editor of The International Journal of Systematic Theology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

New Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Theology

1. Theological Theology
2. On the Clarity of Holy Scripture
3. Confession and Confessions

Dogmatics

4. The Immensity and Ubiquity of God
5. The Holiness and Love of God
6. Prolegomena to Christology: Four Theses

Church and Christian Life

7. On Evangelical Ecclesiology
8. Hope
9. Evangelical Freedom

Index of Biblical References
Index of Subjects
Index of Authors