Colin Gunton on T&T Clark’s Theology and Religion Online

The publisher T&T Clark contacted me earlier this year and asked me—I’m not sure why: Did someone recommend me? Was I third or fourth or ninth choice? Was it something someone ate?—to write a brief essay introducing Colin Gunton’s books and essays published by T&T Clark and which would appear on their forthcoming (at the time) online resources platform. Well, that platform is now live—see here—and while you need a subscription to access Gunton’s writings online, my essay, imaginatively entitled ‘Colin Gunton: An Introduction’, is freely available. The proof is here.

Despite my earlier (partly) tongue-in-cheek questions, I am honoured to have been asked to write this essay, but also a little wary. I’ve made some judgements about the development of Gunton’s theology that those who knew him well could easily dispute if wayward. I studied under Gunton as an undergraduate in the mid-to-late 1990s and only met him once more, with a friend, a few years later when he gave a lecture on something or other at a church in the Sloane Square area and, funnily enough, on a District Line train almost immediately after that lecture. He died a month or two later.

Anyway, enough recollecting; enjoy my essay (please)!