Career
Webster began his career as a chaplain and tutor at St John's College, Durham University (1982–86) and went on to teach systematic theology at Wycliffe College — one of the seven colleges that comprise the Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto (1986–96) — before becoming the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford, a prestigious chair in which he was immediately preceded by Rowan Williams who later became Archbishop of Wales (1999–2002) and then Canterbury (2002-). During Webster's seven-year tenure at Oxford (1996–2003) he also served as a canon of Christ Church. In 2003, he was installed in the Chair of Systematic Theology at King's College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Among other administrative tasks in the university, he is convenor of the research committee for the School of Divinity, Philosophy, and History. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005.
Together with the late Reverend Professor Colin Gunton (1940–2003), Webster co-founded the International Journal of Systematic Theology. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church and of the Scottish Journal of Theology Monographs. He is the series editor of The Great Theologians, Barth Studies for Ashgate, and co-editor for the Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology (2007).
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