How is Robert Jenson telling the story?
Date
2008
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Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology
Abstract
This essay focuses on how the well-known Lutheran theologian Robert Jenson is telling the Christian story. It gives an introduction on Robert Jenson as a person
and then shows how his theology can be summarised with reference to three interrelated themes, namely: Trinity, Time and Church. Jenson is a trinitarian
theologian. In his understanding that cannot be separated from being a narrative theologian. According to him, the Christian story is a story of hope and its
eschatology must be able to survive any criticism – such as the Marxist and the ecological ones. If Jenson thus asks how the End will be, he does not see it as a
repristination of the beginning, but as a sublimation – our end is inclusion in God’s life. The article concludes his sort of ‘theology of hope’ is one that can help
Christians against the threat of nihilism.
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CITATION: Verhoef, A. H. 2008. How is Robert Jenson telling the story? Scriptura, 98:231-243, doi:10.7833/98-0-708.
The original publication is available at http://scriptura.journals.ac.za
The original publication is available at http://scriptura.journals.ac.za
Keywords
Jenson, Robert W., Church, Trinity, Eternity
Citation
Verhoef, A. H. 2008. How is Robert Jenson telling the story? Scriptura, 98:231-243, doi:10.7833/98-0-708