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‘America's theologian’: an appreciation of Robert Jenson's Systematic Theology, with some remarks about the bible

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2002

Francis Watson
Affiliation:
School of Divinity and Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UB, Scotland, [email protected]

Abstract

Robert Jenson's two-volume Systematic Theology is a highly creative and individual synthesis of a number of often divergent strands of contemporary theology. An ecumenical and trinitarian theology, it is also a theology of narrative, hope, and of the word. The main body of this article attempts a sympathetic paraphrase of the argument of this work section by section. In a more critical ‘postscript’, it is argued that ‘word of God’ language is appropriate to the bible's twofold canonical structure, and that the appropriation of the beginning, middle and end of the biblical narrative to the first, second and third persons of the trinity respectively results in an undue bias towards eschatology.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd, 2002

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