John Bainbridge Webster FRSE (1955–2016) was an Anglican priest and theologian writing in the area of systematic, historical, and moral theology.
Born in Mansfield, England, on 20 June 1955, he was educated at the independent Bradford Grammar School and at the University of Cambridge.
He was the series editor of The Great Theologians, Barth Studies for Ashgate, and co-editor for the Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology (2007).
[7][8] Subsequently, Webster's translations and theological interaction with Jüngel are largely responsible for introducing him to the English speaking academy.
[10] Jüngel and Barth present important influences on Webster's own constructive dogmatic work, which offers that the most reliable articulation of Christian truth is that made in shared attention with the Reformation's renewal of Chalcedonian Christianity and guided by the perfect and free God who makes himself the proper object of extended paraphrase by his active self-presentation in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit.