Colin Ewart Gunton was an English Reformed systematic theologian.
14 Facts About Colin Gunton
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Colin Gunton made contributions to the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of the Trinity.
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Colin Gunton 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.
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Colin Ewart Gunton was born on 19 January 1941 in Nottingham, England.
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Colin Gunton then began his study of theology, and a year later received a Master of Arts degree from Mansfield College, Oxford.
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Colin Gunton then began his doctoral work under the direction of Robert Jenson, which took six years because he began teaching two years into his doctoral program as he became Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at King's College, London, in 1969.
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Colin Gunton's dissertation was a study of the doctrine of God in the thought of Charles Hartshorne and Karl Barth, which was completed in 1973.
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Colin Gunton was ordained in the United Reformed Church in 1972.
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Colin Gunton became an Associate Minister of the Brentwood United Reformed Church in 1975, a position which he held until his death.
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Colin Gunton was appointed Lecturer in Systematic Theology at King's College in 1980, and in 1984 became Professor of Christian Doctrine, later becoming the Dean of Faculty from 1988 to 1990.
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Colin Gunton served as Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies from 1993 to 1997.
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Colin Gunton founded and directed the Research Institute in Systematic Theology which drew distinguished scholars and many graduate students from around the world.
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Colin Gunton co-founded the International Journal of Systematic Theology with John Bainbridge Webster and Ralph del Colle in 1999.
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Colin Gunton was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of London, the University of Aberdeen, and shortly before his death, the University of Oxford.