Contents: chapter I. John webster: a darker playwright for renaissance england

CONCLUSION
 
The last twenty years have seen Webster establish himself as a dogmatic 
theologian, however, supplementing that prior reputation as a leading analyst of 
historical texts. A number of essay collections have been produced over the last 15 
years, gathering journal articles and essay contributions to various volumes for 
interested readers. First, Word and Church offered essays focused upon Holy 
Scripture, 
Christ, 
and 
ecclesiology 
in 
2001. Second, 
his 
small 
book Holiness offered four lectures in 2003, previously delivered as the Day 
Higginbotham lectures at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, regarding 
the holiness of theology, God, the church, and the Christian. Third, Holy Scripture: 
A Dogmatic Sketch offered his Scottish Journal of Theology lectures at the 
University of Aberdeen to a wider audience in 2003 and provided what has been 
one of the most significant doctrinal elaborations of a Protestant theology of 
Scripture’s nature and interpretation in the last generation. Fourth, another 
collection of essays, Confessing God, appeared in 2005 and addressed theology, 
God, ecclesiology, and ethics. Fifth, The Domain of the Word appeared in 2012 
and gathered together ten essays on scripture and theological reason. Sixth, two 
volumes appeared in 2015 under the title God without Measure, with the first 
addressing “God and the works of God” and the second “virtue and intellect.”
In many ways much of Webster’s work remained ongoing at the time of his 
death. He continued to supervise numerous doctoral students at St. Andrews. He 
was completing work on a volume of essays regarding creation and providence, 
and he was finalizing a volume entitled Perfection and Presence: God with Us 
according to the Christian Confession, previously delivered as the first Kantzer 
Lectures in Revealed Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 2007. He 
intended to write a theological commentary on Ephesians for the well-known 
Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible. And his magnum opus would surely 

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have been his projected five volume systematic theology, which he had begun in 
earnest. 

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