Colin Gunton

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Colin Ewart Gunton (1941-2003) was a systematic theologian. Gunton was born 19 January 1941. He died suddenly on 6 May 2003. As a theologian he made contributions to the Doctrine of Creation and the Doctrine of the Trinity. He was Professor of Christian Doctrine at King's College London from 1984 and founder of the Research Institute for Systematic Theology. Gunton was actively involved in the United Reformed Church in the United Kingdom. He was arguably the most important British theologian of his generation.

In 1992 Gunton delivered the Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford. In 1993 he delivered the Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Gunton co-founded with John Webster the International Journal of Systematic Theology, and he was a member of the Society for the Study of Theology.

[edit] Major works

• Becoming and Being: The Doctrine of God in Charles Hartshorne and Karl Barth (1978, 2nd Ed. 2001)
• Yesterday and Today: A Study of Continuities in Christology (1983, 2nd Ed. 1997)
• Enlightenment and Alienation: An Essay Towards a Trinitarian Theology (1985)
• Actuality of Atonement: A Study of Metaphor, Rationality and the Christian Tradition (1988) ISBN 0-567-29220-7
• The Promise of Trinitarian Theology (1991, 2nd Ed. 1997) ISBN 0-567-08100-1
• Christ and Creation (1992) ISBN 0-8028-0579-5 | ISBN 0-85364-527-2
• The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity (1993) ISBN 0-521-42184-5
• A Brief Theology of Revelation (1995) ISBN 0-567-09726-9 | ISBN 0-567-29293-2
• Theology Through the Theologians (1996)
• The Triune Creator: A Historical and Systematic Study (1998) ISBN 0-8028-4575-4
• Intellect and Action (2000)
• Theology Through Preaching (2001)
• The Christian Faith: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine (2002) ISBN 0-631-21182-9
• Act and Being: Toward A Theology of the Divine Attributes (2002)
• Father, Son and Holy Spirit: Toward A Fully Trinitarian Theology (2003)
• Theologian as Preacher: Further Sermons from Colin Gunton (2007, forthcoming)
• The Barth Lectures (2007, forthcoming)

[edit] Edited Works

• On Being the Church (1988)
• Persons, Divine and Human (1991)
• God and Freedom: Essays in Historical and Systematic Theology (1995)
• The Doctrine of Creation (1997)
• The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine (1997)
• Time, Trinity and Church: A Response to the theology of Robert Jenson (2000)
• The Practice of Theology: A Reader (2002)
• The Theology of Reconciliation (2003)

[edit] External links

• Gunton Research Discussion Group
• Bibilography
• Guardian Obituary
• Society for the Study of Theology
• Summary
• Theopedia: Colin Gunton conservative Reformed perspective