"Three of the essays to be found in this collection were originally presented at a day conference on the theology of Colin E. Gunton held at Spurgeon's College, London in 2007"--P. [vii]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A decision tree of Colin Gunton's thinking / Robert W. Jenson -- Gunton and Barth / John Webster -- Towards the Analogia personae et relationis : developments in Gunton's Trinitarian thinking / Stephen R. Holmes -- The person as willing agent : classifying Gunton's christology / Alan Spence -- The taste of cake : relation and otherness with Colin Gunton and the strong second hand of God / Paul Cumin -- The double homoousion : forming the content of Gunton's theology / Lincoln Harvey -- Provisionality and promise : avoiding ecclesiastical Nestorianism? / John E. Colwell -- Created for action : Colin Gunton's relational anthropology / Paraskeve|| Tibbs -- Colin Gunton's doctrine of atonement : transcending rationalism by metaphor / Justyn Terry -- Colin Gunton on providence : critical commentaries / Terry J. Wright -- Colin Gunton and the theological origin of modernity / Brad Green -- The shape of Colin Gunton's theology : on the way towards a fully Trinitarian theology / Christoph Schwo||bel.