How is God Present Everywhere | John Webster
Channel: Henry Center
Date: 2022-09-22

2007 Kantzer Lecture #3 - God Is Everywhere but Not Only Everywhere

In this third lecture, Professor Webster addresses three primary subjects relating to God’s presence with God’s creatures: the omnipresence of God to creaturely reality, divine providence, and the covenant between God and creatures. With respect to the omnipresence of God, Webster speaks in particular to the immensity of God, a special description of God that speaks to God’s unqualified transcendence over spatial relations. Webster then develops a view of providence that is both protological and teleological, and finally, Webster offers us an account of the covenant as the special history of God with God’s freely chosen creatures.

John B. Webster (1955-2016) (PhD University of Cambridge) was a notable contemporary British theologian of the Anglican Communion writing in the areas of systematic, historical and moral theology. His major publications included Eberhard Jüngel: An Introduction to his Theology (Cambridge University Press, 1991), Barth’s Ethics of Reconciliation (Cambridge University Press, 1995), The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Holy Scripture: A Dogmatic Sketch (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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