John Webster

John Webster

Education:

  • Ph.D. cum laude, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, 1995
  • B.A., University of South Africa, 1974
  • B.Th. Honours., University of South Africa, 1978
  • Graduate study in Theology, (1979-1983) University of South Africa/ (1983-1985) Andrews University
  • M.A. Religion, Andrews University, 1985

PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Soteriology
  • Ecclesiology
  • Seventh-Day Adventism
  • Systematic Theology

Representative PUBLICATIONS

  • “Truth and Reconciliation”: the South African Commission, and the Church’s Commission. Lecture #1—Confessing the Truth: The Root of Reconciliation, Peacemaking Weekend, Walla Walla University, May 4-5, 2012
  • “Truth and Reconciliation”: the South African Commission, and the Church’s Commission. Lecture #2—Confessing our Sins: The Route to Reconciliation, Peacemaking Weekend, Walla Walla University, May 4-5, 2012
  • “Considering Salvation: Models of Salvation” Lecture #1, Loma Linda University Church, 19 May, 2012 “Considering Salvation: Four Types of Adventism” Lecture #2, Loma Linda University Church, 26 May, 2012
  • “Considering Salvation: God with us” Lecture #3, Loma Linda University Church, 2 June, 2012
  • “Rethinking Salvation,” Presentation to Pastor’s Meeting, West Religion, Southern California Conference, 13 June, 2012
  • “Re-Considering Salvation” Glendale Adventist Forum, 27 October, 2012

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

  1. “Praxis, Theoria, Poesis: The Three Modes of Being of Theology at the Dawn of a Second Renaissance,” Paper Presented at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1986.
  2. “Theology, Apartheid, and the Church Struggle in South Africa,” a paper presented to PU undergraduate students in Prof. Jeffrey Stout’s “Religion and Morality” class in Woodrow Wilson School of Public Administration Auditorium, Princeton University, 1986.
  3. “After Apartheid What?: A Theological Reflection on Divine and Human Justice in a New South Africa,” a 60 paged paper written for DS 57 “Interpretations of Justice and Injustice”, a doctoral seminar taught by Prof. Lois Gehr Livezey, Princeton Theological Seminary, Fall 1986.
  4. “Theology as a Dynamic Four-dimensional Matrix: A Perspective On Some Basic Issues in Theological Method,” Research Report, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1987. “Enchantment [Karl Barth] and Tolerance [Richard Rorty]: The prospects for a Working Relationship,” Paper Presented at Princeton University, 1988.