Wednesday 14 March 2018

Colin Gunton: Corrections to his Bibliography

There are a handful of entries in the published Colin Gunton bibliography (Colin E. Gunton, Revelation and Reason: Prolegomena to Systematic Theology, transcribed and edited by P. H. Brazier (London: T&T Clark, 2008), pp. 208–218) that I think are incorrect:

On p. 216, a three-volume Commentary on the Lectionary produced by Gunton is mentioned, along with the three individual volumes comprising this set on p. 217. However, this three-volume set was edited by Roger E. Van Harn and Gunton only contributed certain articles to volumes one and two. The details are as follows:

Colin E. Gunton, ‘First Lesson: Acts 5:27-32’, in Roger E. Van Harn (ed.), The Lectionary Commentary: Theological Exegesis for Sunday’s Texts. The First Readings: The Old Testament and Acts (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans/London: Continuum, 2001), pp. 550–553

Colin E. Gunton, ‘First Lesson: Acts 7:55-60’, in Roger E. Van Harn (ed.), The Lectionary Commentary: Theological Exegesis for Sunday’s Texts. The First Readings: The Old Testament and Acts (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans/London: Continuum, 2001), pp. 553–555

Colin E. Gunton, ‘Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15:51-58’, in Roger E. Van Harn (ed.), The Lectionary Commentary: Theological Exegesis for Sunday’s Texts. The Second Readings: Acts and the Epistles (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans/London: Continuum, 2001), pp. 228–231

Colin E. Gunton, ‘Preaching from the Letters’, in Roger E. Van Harn (ed.), The Lectionary Commentary: Theological Exegesis for Sunday’s Texts. The Second Readings: Acts and the Epistles (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans/London: Continuum, 2001), pp. 621–626

The final two of these articles (i.e. ‘1 Corinthians 15:51-58’ and ‘Preaching from the Letters’) are said to have been printed in a 2004 book entitled Exploring and Proclaiming the Apostles’ Creed, Vol. 2, also edited by Roger E. Van Harn along with David Ford and Gunton (see Gunton/Brazier, p. 218). However, I have not been able to find any trace of this book whatsoever (I have contacted the publisher, Eerdmans, but have yet to receive any response), and, taking everything into consideration, I believe that there has been an error in recording the bibliographical details. That said, there is a book edited by Roger E. Van Harn with the title Exploring and Proclaiming the Apostles’ Creed, and it does contain one of Gunton’s sermons:

Colin Gunton, ‘A Sermon: The Almighty God’, in Roger E. Van Harn, Exploring and Proclaiming the Apostles’ Creed (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans/London: Morehouse, 2004), pp. 33–37

I haven’t seen this sort of clarification anywhere else, so I hope (a) that this is of help to anyone researching Gunton, and (b) that I have not added to the confusion! If I have, please let me know so I can update/delete this post and update my own records.

Update (16/03/2018): Eerdmans has confirmed my suspicions!

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