John B. Webster

The Holy Trinity is the ontological principle of systematic theology. Its external or objective principle is the divine Word. (Principles of Systematic Theology)

In the domain of Christ’s rule and revelation, Holy Scripture is the embassy of the prophets and apostles.

The matter of the gospel is the free majesty of the triune God's grace in his works of creation, reconciliation and completion. @John_B_Webster

The high and eternal God who is life in himself gives life to his creatures. @John_B_Webster

Good theologians are those whose life and thought are caught up in the process of being slain and made alive by the gospel and of acquiring and exercising habits of mind and heart which take very seriously the gospel’s provocation. @John_B_Webster

"To realize oneself as a creature is actively to appropriate an antecedent nature with a given form of which we are not the authors, and whose ends we are not at liberty to invent, adapt or subvert." @John_B_Webster @John_B_Webster

Engagement with God means being sufficiently grasped, disturbed, or troubled by the gospel and its dispute with us, that we are provoked (however unwittingly) to learn how to think and live differently. @John_B_Webster

"In regenerate theological activity, intellectual greed is replaced by a hunger for divine instruction." -- Webster

Theology takes place in the domain of the Word of God, and in that domain the living Christ rules. @John_B_Webster

“What the church is called to say about the resurrection is first and foremost simply to point to it as the most real and true and glad thing that there is…Its first task is to say, ‘Here he is! Here is Jesus Christ, unfathomably and insuppressably alive!’” @John_B_Webster

“God’s glory is God himself in the perfect majesty and beauty of his being. The glory is resplendent. Because God himself is light, he pours forth light.” John Webster

Idolatry is reproved, not by silence, but by speeches that set forth what God has taught. -John Webster

The gracious, sovereign movement of Word and Spirit outbids the fall. @John_B_Webster

The infinite depth within the being of God is that ocean whose tide is the missions of the Son and Spirit by which lost creatures are redeemed and perfected. @John_B_Webster

My neighbor obliges me because he or she is the presence to me of the appointment and vocation of the Triune God. “The Human Person”

Theology is about everything, but it is not about everything about everything, but about everything in relation to God. @John_B_Webster

The bedrock of soteriology is the doctrine of the Trinity. The perfect life of the Holy Trinity is the all encompassing and first reality from whose completeness all else derives. -John Webster Thomas Hext reviews @tandtclark Reader in new @CredoMagazine credomag.com/article/god-an…

"Good theologians are those whose life and thought are caught up in the process of being slain and made alive by the gospel and of acquiring and exercising habits of mind and heart which take very seriously the gospel's provocation." - John Webster

Rather than appealing to its own theological and spiritual substance, Christian theology had frequently tried to meet its challengers on their own ground, and thereby often robbed itself of the very arguments which it should have mounted in its defence. “Discovering Dogmatics”