The Triune Story: Collected Essays on Scripture

Robert W. Jenson

Jun 2019 · Oxford University Press

About this ebook

At the time of his death in the autumn of 2017, Robert W. Jenson was arguably America's foremost theologian. Over the course of a career spanning more than five decades, much of Jenson's thought was dedicated to the theological description of how Scripture should be read-what has come to be called theological interpretation. In this rapidly expanding field of scholarship, Jenson has had an inordinate impact. Despite its importance, study of Jenson's theology of scriptural interpretation has lagged, due in large part to the longevity of his career and volume of his output. In this book, all of Jenson's writings on Scripture and its interpretation have been collected for the first time. Here readers will be able to see the evolution of Jenson's thought on this topic, as well as the scope and intensity of his late-period engagement with it. Where other twentieth-century thinkers rely on non-theological, secular methods of scriptural investigation, Jenson is willing to let go of "respectability" for the sake of a truly Christian theological interpretation. The result is a genuinely free, intellectually invigorating exercise in reading and theory from one of the greatest theologians in the last century.

About the author

Robert W. Jenson (1930-2017) was an internationally renowned theologian and the author of dozens of books and hundreds of essays and articles. He earned his ThD at the University of Heidelberg, finishing his dissertation in Basel under the guidance of Karl Barth. His two-volume Systematic Theology was published in 1997 and 1999 by Oxford University Press. Brad East (PhD, Yale University) is Assistant Professor in the College of Biblical Studies at Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas. His work has been published in Modern Theology, International Journal of Systematic Theology, Scottish Journal of Theology, Anglican Theological Review, and Pro Ecclesia, as well as interpretation, Living Church, Los Angeles Review of Books, Marginalia Review of Books, and Mere Orthodoxy.