--- title: "4 Colin Gunton Quotes - Famous Theologian (Intellect And Action)" description: "Colin Ewart Gunton was an English Reformed systematic theologian. He made contributions to the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of the Trinity." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-abraham-pais-24808.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Colin Gunton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-abraham-pais-24808.jpg) # Colin Gunton (1941–2003) Theologian **4** quotes in **41** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Colin Gunton was a theologian, best known for *Intellect And Action*. ## Quick Facts About Colin Gunton Born January 19, 1941 Died May 6, 2003 Profession Theologian Notable works Intellect And Action ## About Colin Gunton Colin Ewart Gunton was an English Reformed systematic theologian. He made contributions to the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of the Trinity. He was Professor of Christian Doctrine at King's College, London, from 1984 and co-founder with Christoph Schwoebel of the Research Institute for Systematic Theology in 1988. Gunton was actively involved in the United Reformed Church in the United Kingdom where he had been a minister since 1972. ## Quotes by Colin Gunton > [To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-gunton/to-image-the-being-of-god-towards-the-world-to-be-the-priest-of/) Colin Gunton [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f79/colin-gunton-69110_activity_to-image-the-being-of-god-towards-the-wo_97298.jpg) > [From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-gunton/from-all-those-created-in-the-image-of-god-there-is-something-to-be/) Colin Gunton [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be1/colin-gunton-69110_given_from-all-those-created-in-the-image-of-g_559549.jpg) > [In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-gunton/in-our-desire-to-impose-form-on-the-world-and-our-lives-we-have-lost/) Colin Gunton [Alienation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alienation/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1e/colin-gunton-69110_alienation_in-our-desire-to-impose-form-on-the-worl_682216.jpg) > [Everything important seems already to have happened.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-gunton/everything-important-seems-already-to-have-happened/) Colin Gunton [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/297/colin-gunton-69110_happened_everything-important-seems-already-to-ha_3058213.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-gunton/#itemlist", "name": "Colin Gunton Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. 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