Robert Jenson on Adam and Eve “Who then were Adam and Eve? They were the first hominid group that in whatever form of religion or language used some expression that we might translate ‘God,’ as a vocative. Theology need not share the anxious effort to stipulate morphological marks that distinguish prehumans from humans in the […]
Robert Jenson on scripture The churches most faithful to Scripture are not those that legislate the most honorific propositions about Scripture, or even those that most diligently scrutinize proposed theologumena for their concordance with it, but those that most often and thoughtfully actually read and hear it. from “The Religious Power of Scripture,” The Scottish […]
Nicholas Lash on discerning God’s agency in history “Times have changed. The insurance policy on my house declares that ‘The company shall not be liable in respect of’ a number of things, including damage resulting from ‘the radioactive toxic explosive or other hazardous properties of any explosive nuclear assembly or nuclear component thereof,’ but makes […]
Hans Hillerbrand on the church historian’s task “We [church historians] [should] not hesitate to argue vigorously that the avenue through which to understand Western culture is its Christian history. We have been all too timid, I believe, about this. […] We tend to overlook the effects of Christianity on the political, social, economic, and intellectual […]
Robert Jenson on the gospel “The purpose that constitutes and distinguishes the church and in service of which the church needs to think is maintenance of a particular message, called ‘the gospel’.” from Systematic Theology: The Triune God, Vol 1, (OUP, 1997), 4. “The gospel” is the telling of Jesus’ story — as the decisive event in […]
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