I've just discovered that a sequel of sorts to Colin Gunton's Theology As Preaching (2001) is being published in March 2007 called Theologian As Preacher: Further Sermons from Colin Gunton. It's being edited by his daughter Sarah, and former students and colleagues John Colwell and Steve Holmes. It also sounds like John and Steve are each contributing an essay interpretating Colin's understanding of the task of the preacher and the theologian. The book's synopsis says:
A sequel to Gunton's bestselling book of Sermons, "Theology through Preaching", this book consists of twenty sermons from the later years of Colin's life. The sermons demonstrate how Colin Gunton communicated his theology to a parish audience and how academic theology can inform preaching practice. The book is introduced by an account of Gunton's life within Brentwood URC church, where he served as associate minister for over twenty-five years. This account offers a more rounded picture of the man to those of his readers who knew only the academic side of his work. Two interpretative essays explore how Gunton understood the life of the church and the ministry of preaching, the place of an academic theologian within that, and how the work of preaching affected the development of Gunton's theology. Gunton placed significant value on the preaching ministry, of the connection he saw between that ministry and the work of theology, and of his own conviction that preaching was a necessary task. This book explores through essay and example how these intellectual convictions were worked out in his own life.
Other Gunton related news is Blackwell's are planning to publish in 2007 The Nineteenth Century Theologians (The Great Theologians), which Colin was editing and contributing a chapter on Friedrich Schleiermacher. Steve Holmes has a chapter on Samuel Coleridge and Stephen Prickett a chapter on the Bible. You can also purchase Createdness and Ethics: The Doctrine of Creation and Theological Ethics in the Theology of Colin E. Gunton and Oswald Bayer (2006) by Hans Schaeffer, which sounds like a version of Hans' doctorate.
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