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This outstanding work offers a short account of the nature of Christian theology. In a series of six lectures, John Webster explores the privilege of thinking and speaking of God in light of “the staggering good news of Jesus Christ.” How might faith approach that task? Webster proposes that we do theology well when we recognize the gospel as the most important reality. He considers the...

positive science, but its “given” is the unmanageable gift of God’s coming in Christ and Spirit. In this lecture, I want to talk about the place of texts and the reading of texts in that culture of the gospel. In particular, I want to reflect on the relation between theology and Scripture, and most especially on the ways in which the rhetoric of theology ought to be shaped by that relation. To set us on our way, let’s listen to a somewhat surprising voice, namely that great despiser of the cult of
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