John Webster and the Holiness of Preaching
My series of posts on John Webster has attempted to cast him as a theologian devoted to an all-encompassing view of God’s holiness—His complete and utter otherness, and His sufficiency in Himself. It was Webster’s task to retrieve theology from the grasp of a mere spiritualized sociology or a glorified anthropology, and to simply ‘let […]
John Webster and the Holy Habits of Theology
In my last post I analyzed John Webster as the theologian of holiness, where I considered Webster’s commitment to faithfully articulating the distinction between Creator and creation as it relates to God’s nature as God. Webster’s life could be summed up as a life-long commitment to this concept, what he himself described as “theological theology,” […]
Theologian of Holiness: Introducing John Webster
After John Webster’s untimely passing in 2016, several responses were made considering the nature of his theological corpus. Webster left several volumes of works that range from compilations of journal article to smaller monographs, including his popular God Without Measure and Holy Scripture: A Dogmatic Sketch, and many acquaintances and burgeoning scholars have noted the […]
The Lord’s Dinner
The Lord’s Dinner: Restoring the Common Meal to the Center of the Churches’ Common Life One of the curiosities of historic Christianity is that we participate in a meal – the Lord’s Supper – which is not a meal at all, but the merest token of a meal, a fragment of bread and a sip […]
Becoming a Methodist
Having just completed a challenging Southern Baptist Convention, the headline on this blog may alarm you! Never fear, I am not joining the United Methodist Church. Whatever problems we have in the SBC, the problems in the UMC are even more challenging. The kind of Methodist which appeals to me are the men I have […]