Rate My Professor John Webster

John W. Webster, PhD, serves as Professor of Theology and History of Christianity in the H.M.S. Richards Divinity School at La Sierra University since 1999. He is also affiliated with the Philosophical Studies program faculty, specializing in moral philosophy and philosophy of religion. Additionally, he chairs the Department of General Religious Studies. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. cum laude from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1995, an M.A. in Religion from Andrews University in 1985, B.Th. Honours. from the University of South Africa in 1978, and a B.A. from the University of South Africa in 1974. Webster pursued graduate studies in Theology at the University of South Africa from 1979 to 1983 and at Andrews University from 1983 to 1985.

Webster's research and teaching interests span soteriology, ecclesiology, Seventh-day Adventism, systematic theology, history of Christianity, philosophy, and ethics. He has presented extensively on theological topics, including the “Truth and Reconciliation” lectures at Walla Walla University in May 2012 on confessing truth and sins as routes to reconciliation in the context of the South African Commission and the church; the “Considering Salvation” series at Loma Linda University Church in May-June 2012 covering models of salvation, types of Adventism, and God with us; “Rethinking Salvation” to pastors at the Southern California Conference in June 2012; and “Re-Considering Salvation” at the Glendale Adventist Forum in October 2012. His peer-reviewed contributions from the 1980s include “Praxis, Theoria, Poesis: The Three Modes of Being of Theology at the Dawn of a Second Renaissance” presented at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1986; “Theology, Apartheid, and the Church Struggle in South Africa” at Princeton University in 1986; “After Apartheid What?: A Theological Reflection on Divine and Human Justice in a New South Africa” for a Princeton seminar in 1986; “Theology as a Dynamic Four-dimensional Matrix: A Perspective On Some Basic Issues in Theological Method” in 1987; and “Enchantment [Karl Barth] and Tolerance [Richard Rorty]: The prospects for a Working Relationship” at Princeton University in 1988.