About Colin Gunton
Lived 1941 – 2003 (aged 62). Colin Gunton was a British theologian.
Writings Gunton's most influential work was on the doctrines of creation and the Trinity. One of his most important books is The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity (1993), which has been described as "a profound analysis of the paradoxes and contradictions of Modernity." The One, the Three and the Many remains a "majestical survey of the western intellectual tradition and a penetrating analysis of the modern condition."
Published works 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 (1985/2006) Actuality of Atonement: A Study of Metaphor, Rationality and the Christian Tradition (1988) The Promise of Trinitarian Theology (1991, 2nd Ed. 1997) Christ and Creation (1992) | The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 1993) A Brief Theology of Revelation (1995) | Theology Through the Theologians: Essays 1972-1995 (1996) The Triune Creator: A Historical and Systematic Study, Edinburgh Studies in Constructive Theology, (1998) Intellect and Action (2000, T & T Clark) Theology Through Preaching: Sermons for Brentwood (2001, T & T Clark) The Christian Faith: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine (2002) Act and Being: Toward A Theology of the Divine Attributes (SCM Press/Eerdmans, 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)
Edited works On Being the Church: Essays on the Christian Community (1988) Persons, Divine and Human: King's College Essays in Theological Anthropology (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 (Eerdmans, 2000) The Practice of Theology: A Reader (SCM, 2002) edited with Murray Rae and Stephen Holmes The Theology of Reconciliation (T&T Clark, 2003) The Doctrine of Creation: Essays in Dogmatics, History and Philosophy (T&T Clark, 2004)
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British theologian
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Colin Gunton was born on 19 January 1941 in Nottingham.
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Colin Gunton died on 6 May 2003.
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Colin Gunton was a theologian.
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Colin Gunton was British.
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