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 is the author of 18 books and editor of 8 books covering all aspects of theology.

He was Professor of Christian Doctrine at King's College London from 1984 and co-founder with Christoph Schwoebel of the Research Institute for Systematic Theology in 1988. Gunton was actively involved in the United Reformed Church in the United Kingdom where he had been a minister since 1972. He was arguably the most important British theologian of his generation.

In 1990 he delivered the Didsbury Lectures at the Nazarene College, Manchester. In 1992 Gunton delivered the Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford. In 1993 he delivered the Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Colin Gunton and John Webster were the founding editors of the International Journal of Systematic Theology, the first volume of which was published in 1999. He was also an active member of the Society for the Study of Theology, serving as a Committee Member (1975-1977), Secretary (1977-1987), and President (1993-1994).

[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: Essays 1972-1995 (1996)
The Triune Creator: A Historical and Systematic Study (1998) ISBN 0-8028-4575-4
Intellect and Action (2000, T & T Clark))
Theology Through Preaching (2001, T & T Clark)
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, T & T Clark)
The Barth Lectures (2007, T & T Clark)

[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) edited with Murray Rae and Stephen Holmes
The Theology of Reconciliation (2003)