Colin Gunton | |
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Born | Colin Ewart Gunton 19 January 1941 Nottingham, England |
Died | 6 May 2003 | (aged 62)
Spouse |
Jennifer Osgathorpe (m. 1964) |
Ecclesiastical career | |
Religion | Christianity (Reformed) |
Church | United Reformed Church |
Ordained | 1972 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | Becoming and Being[1] (1973) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Jenson[2] |
Influences | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Theology |
Sub-discipline | Systematic theology |
Institutions | King's College, London |
Doctoral students |
Colin Ewart Gunton (19 January 1941 – 6 May 2003) was an English Reformed systematic theologian. He made contributions to the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of the Trinity. He was Professor of Christian Doctrine at King's College, London, from 1984 and co-founder with Christoph Schwoebel of the Research Institute for Systematic Theology in 1988. Gunton was actively involved in the United Reformed Church in the United Kingdom where he had been a minister since 1972.