He was briefly a Lutheran, and on Easter Sunday, 2007, he officially became a member of the Catholic Church, in which he remained for the rest of his life.
This vision of a non-dogmatic and non-legalistic vegetarianism linked to traditional biblical principles rather than the pantheism of the New Age movement or the abdication of human uniqueness entailed in animal rights legislation has been controversial in both theological and philosophical circles.
[9] Several books have extensively analyzed and criticized his position, including Laura Hobgood-Oster, Holy Dogs and Asses (University of Illinois Press, 2008) and Stephen M. Vantassel, Dominion over Wildlife?
The third part discusses the transformations of that tradition in contemporary culture, which is increasingly oriented toward the visual over the auditory.
He also discusses the role of deafness in Christian history and various theological debates over the question of how God created the world through sound.
He also wrote the commendation for John Updike for the Presentation of the Christianity and Literature Lifetime Achievement Award at the Modern Languages Association Meeting in December, 2006.
Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004): 409-24, and "Theological Reflections on the Hyperbolic Imagination," in Rhetorical Invention and Religious Inquiry, ed.
Webb wrote a book critical of Darwinism, The Dome of Eden: A New Solution to the Problem of Creation and Evolution (Cascades, 2010).
His book Jesus Christ, Eternal God: Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter (Oxford University Press, 2012), engages with Mormon theology in order to develop a revisionist account of Chalcedonian christology that seeks to redeem and appropriate monophysitism for modern theology.
[15] Stephen Webb lived in Brownsburg, Indiana with his wife, Diane Timmerman,[16] who is a Professor of Theatre at Butler University, and their five children.
[1][17][18] For an article on Intelligent Design that received numerous critical posts, see For an essay about dogs that was commissioned by the National Humane Society, see For two articles about liberal arts education by Webb from LiberalArtsOnline, see For a review of American Providence in the journal First Things, see For an article about Dylan, see For a review of Dylan Redeemed, see For an interview of Webb on Dylan in the UK's The Guardian, see For the Mormon community's interest in Prof. Webb's reflections on Mormonism, see from the Mormon Times