John Webster Posts
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April 2, 2010
Pastor-Theologians and Academic Theologians: Toward a Healthy Division of Labor, Part 2
In a previous post I raised a question about the necessity of pastor-theologians in light of gifted, ecclesially sensitive academic theologians such as Jenson, Guton, Hart, Webster, Vanhoozer, etc. Is there anything that a pastor-theologian brings to the table that isn’t already being brought by academic theologians? And if so, what?
Nearly all of my study up to this point has been in historical soteriology (Augustine, the Cappadocians, Athanasius, Anselm, Calvin, Luther, …
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March 27, 2010
Webster on “Technical Sophistication” and Ecclesial Theology
Theological reflection that cannot connect with the existential questions of the congregation is not ecclesial, however robust it might be. But popular theology, in and of itself, cannot be the sum total of ecclesial theology. The theological needs of the church will often compel us to press beyond a lay level of discourse, yet such pressing need not degenerate into irrelevant abstraction. John Webster helpfully notes,
[Theology] attempts a ‘reading’ of the gospel which in its turn assists the Church’s reading. Developing such a ‘reading’ of the gospel entails, of course, …
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