Robert Jenson on metanarratives A. from Canon and Creed, (Westminster John Knox, 2010), 120. We must summon the audacity to say that modernity’s scientific/metaphysical metanarrative — at the moment told by astrophysicists and neo-Darwinians — is not the encompassing story within which all other accounts of reality must establish their places, or be discredited by failing to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Robert Jenson on predestination “No even distantly Christian thought can avoid a doctrine of predestination. Fear of the doctrine is merely — or profoundly — fear of God. Nor can this fear validly argue, as it regularly does, that it is human freedom that must be defended against the notion of a truly final God. […]
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