In this two volume collection of essays, which forms a companion to The Domain of the Word, John Webster brings together studies of a range of topics in dogmatic and moral theology. This first volume, God and the Works of God, treats the themes of God's inner being and God's outer acts. After an overall account of the relation between God in himself and the economy of God's external works, there are studies of the divine aseity and of the theology of the eternal Son. These are followed by a set of essays on creation out of nothing; the relation between God and God's creatures; the nature of providence; the relation of soteriology and the doctrine of God; and the place of teaching about justification in Christian theology.Each of the essays explores the relation of theology proper to economy, and together they pose an understanding of Christian doctrine in which all theological teaching flows from the doctrine of the immanent Trinity.
John Webster was Professor of Systematic Theology, University of St Andrews, UK.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Omnia... percractantur in sacra doctrina sub ratione Dei. On the matter of Christian theologyGod in Himself2. Life in and of himself3. Eternal generation4. Christology, Theology, Economy. The Place of Christology in Systematic Theology5. One who is SonGod's Outer Works6. Trinity and Creation7. 'Love is also a lover of life': creatio ex nihilo and creaturely goodness8. Non ex aequo: God's relation to creatures9. One the theology of providence10. 'It was the will of the Lord to bruise him': soteriology and the doctrine of God11. Rector et iudex super omnia genera doctrinarum? The place of the doctrine of justification12. 'In the society of God': some principles of ecclesiology13. Purity and Plenitude: Reflections on Congar's Tradition and TraditionsEpilogue14. What Makes Theology Theological?Index
These essays are essential reading for anyone wishing to think through moral theology on their way to pressing practical considerations.
John Webster, Kathryn Tanner, Iain Torrance, University of Aberdeen) Webster, John (Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Chicago Divinity School) Tanner, Kathryn (Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary) Torrance, Iain (President and Professor of Patristics
John Webster, Kathryn Tanner, Iain Torrance, University of Aberdeen) Webster, John (Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Chicago Divinity School) Tanner, Kathryn (Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary) Torrance, Iain (President and Professor of Patristics