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The book brings together a set of related studies on the nature of Scripture and of Christian theology by one of the most prominent representatives of Protestant theology of our time. After a brief introduction on the setting of the book and its major themes, the first part of the volume examines topics on the nature and interpretation of Scripture. A comprehensive proposal about Scripture and its interpretation is followed by a study of Scripture as the embassy of the risen Christ, and by three related chapters analyzing the ways in which widely different major modern theologians (Barth, T.F. Torrance and Rowan Williams) have understood the nature and interpretation of the Bible. The second part of the volume makes a cumulative proposal about the nature and tasks of Christian theology, examining the fundamental principles of systematic theology, the distinctive role and scope of reason in Christian theology, the relation of theology to the humanities, and the vocation of theology to promote the peace of the church.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part One: Scripture1. The Domain of the Word
2. Resurrection and Scripture
3. Illumination
4. Witness to the Word: Karl Barth's Lectures on the Gospel of John
5. Verbum mirificum. T. F. Torrance on Scripture and Hermeneutics
Part 2: Theological Reason6. Biblical Reasoning
7. Principles of Systematic Theology
8. Theology and the Peace of the Church
9. Regina artium: Theology and the Liberal Arts
10. Curiosity
Index
About the author
John Webster is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. 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.
