New Titles Forthcoming from John Webster

I have been keeping this news under my bonnet for a few weeks, but since T&T Clark has published the full details on their site I suppose it's safe to talk.  John Webster, my supervisor here in Aberdeen, is preparing not one but two new volumes of collected essays for publication next year.  The Domain of the Word and God Without Measure will follow on his previous essay collections, Word and Church and Confessing God.  Here's the info that the publisher has released so far:

THE DOMAIN OF THE WORD
Scripture and Theological Reason
The book brings together a set of related studies on the nature of Scripture and of Christian theology by one of the most prominent representatives of Protestant theology of our time. After a brief introduction on the setting of the book and its major themes, the first part of the volume examines topics on the nature and interpretation of Scripture. A comprehensive proposal about Scripture and its interpretation is followed by a study of Scripture as the embassy of the risen Christ, and by three related chapters analyzing the ways in which widely different major modern theologians (Barth, T.F. Torrance and Rowan Williams) have understood the nature and interpretation of the Bible.   The second part of the volume makes a cumulative proposal about the nature and tasks of Christian theology, examining the fundamental principles of systematic theology, the distinctive role and scope of reason in Christian theology, the relation of theology to the humanities, and the vocation of theology to promote the peace of the church.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction

Part One: Scripture
2. The Domain of the Word
3. Resurrection and Scripture
4. Witness to the Word. Karl Barth's Lectures on the Gospel of John
5. Verbum mirificum. T.F. Torrance on Scripture and Hermeneutics
6. Rowan Williams on Scripture

Part Two: Theological Reason
7. Principles of Systematic Theology
8. Biblical Reasoning
9. Regina artium: theology and the humanities
10. Theology and the Peace of the Church
Index

GOD WITHOUT MEASURE
Essays in Christian Doctrine
John Webster, in this the companion volume to The Domain of the Word, collates related studies on topics in dogmatic and moral theology. The volume begins with an introduction to the dominant themes of the book and its distinctive approach to them. This is followed by part one, which consists of three studies of the theology of God in himself: one on the neglected topic of divine aseity, and two on the theology of the eternal Son. The second part of the book treats the outer work of God in providence (chapter 5) and redemption (chapters 6 and 7). The third part features studies in the theology of created being, concentrating especially upon the moral nature of creatures, and concluding with a substantial treatment of the theology of the Christian society. The essays present a coherent understanding of the content, structure and proportions of Christian dogmatics, in which Christian teaching is understood as an extension of the Christian doctrine of God, and engage in critical conversation with classical and contemporary theological texts.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Life in and of himself: on God's Aseity
3. Eternal Generation
4. One Who Is Son: Theological Reflections on the Exordium to the Epistle to the Hebrews
5. On the Theology of Providence
6. "It was the will of the Lord to bruise him": soteriology and the doctrine of God
7.'Rector et iudex super omnia genera doctrinarum'? The place of the doctrine of justification
8.Where Christ is: Christology and Ethics
9. The Dignity of Creatures
10. Mercy
11. 'In the Society of God': Some Principles of Ecclesiology


These two volumes include several brand new, original essays, as well as several essays previously published in other collections and journals.  Both titles are currently listed as due out in February of 2012, but as one who is involved in the books' behind-the-scenes I can tell you that's an estimate -- one that will require a lot of hard work to reach.  Stay tuned.