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North America has rarely produced a theologian as creative and
productive as Robert W. Jenson. A truly ecumenical thinker, Jenson
consistently demonstrates the way that the church's confession of
the triune God of scripture restructures Christian thinking.
Jenson's work on the nature of theology has focused on the category
of "promise": a way with language that opens up new possibilities.
At the heart of Jenson's theology of the gospel is the conviction
that, in Christ, God discloses a word of pure promise to us,
enabling new patterns of life. Just as the gospel opens up new ways
of living, good theology unfolds into new interpretations and
articulations. Engaging Jenson's work across vital areas, this
volume lays out the contours and key contributions of Jenson's
thought for modern Christology, theological interpretation of
Scripture, the doctrine of the Trinity in light of the recent
Trinitarian revival, and ecumenical theological relations. This
volume gathers together essays by some of contemporary theology's
most capable thinkers, such as Oliver Crisp, Stephen Holmes, Joseph
Mangina, Peter Leithart, Telford Work, Eugene Rogers, R. Kendall
Soulen, and Peter Ochs, to examine the ways in which Jenson's own
theology functions as "promise," enabling further theological
visions and articulations.
The identification of God with beauty is one of the most
aesthetically rich notions within Christian thought. However, this
claim is often at risk of becoming untethered from core Christian
theological confessions. To avoid a theological account of beauty
becoming a mere projection of our wildest desires, it must be
reined in by dogmatics. To make this case, this book employs the
thought of Robert W. Jenson to construct a dogmatic aesthetics.
Jenson's whole theological program is directed by exploring the
systematic potential of the core doctrines of the faith that
finally opens out into a vast vision of the beauty of God and
creatures: "God is a great fugue...the rest is music." Taking
Jenson's cue, the account of beauty presented in this book is
propelled by a core conviction of Jenson's theology: the sole
analogue between God and creatures is not "being" or any other
metaphysical concept, but Jesus Christ.
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