Books written by Robert W. Jenson

America's Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards

The author argues that Edwards was very much a figure of the Enlightenment, but was able to use Enlightenment thought in his theology without yielding to its mechanistic and individualistic tendencies.
A Theology in Outline: Can These Bones Live?

: An Introduction to Christian Theology", at Princeton University. Adam Eitel, Jenson's teaching assistant at the time, recorded and transcribed the twenty-three lectures in the series, compiling them into this book.
Ecumenical Future

Ecumenical Future
The Triune Identity: God according to the Gospel

This book presents a bold venture in theology, combining a presentation, explanation, analysis, and reinterpretation of trinitarian language.
Union with Christ: The New Finnish Interpretation of Luther

This book introduces the English-speaking world to the new Finnish interpretation of the theology of Martin Luther, initiated by the writings of Tuomo Mannermaa of Helsinki University.
The Works of God

Volume 2: the Works of God Robert W. Jenson. course. The Trinity is such a conversation, the only one that can never collapse into dialogue or monologue, because the three who make its poles are the conversation.
Ezekiel

"--Gilbert Meilaender, Valparaiso University "Here is a faithful Christocentric reading of Ezekiel that sits happily alongside this Jewish reader's cherished volume of Moshe Greenberg's commentary on Ezekiel.
Reclaiming the Bible for the Church

The essays in this volume address from various perspectives the notorious gap between the historical- critical approach to the study of the Bible and the church's liturgical and dogmatic transmission of biblical faith.
Marks of the Body of Christ

This insightful volume brings together essays by ten leading Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, and Orthodox theologians, each analyzing one of the seven traditional marks of the church and discussing how it is found, or not found, ...
Song of Songs

Jenson focuses on the overt sense of the book as an erotic love poem in order to discover how this evocative poetry solicits a theological reading.
In One Body Through the Cross

Drafted by sixteen theologians and ecumenists from various church traditions, who met over a period of three years in Princeton, New Jersey, this document seeks to steer contemporary efforts at church unity away from social and political ...
Christian Dogmatics

The historical truth about the reality of Jesus cannot be separated from the living impression he made on those who gave us the only sketch we possess of his being and meaning. To look for his historicity apart from his meaning is like ...
Church Unity and the Papal Office: An Ecumenical Dialogue on John Paul II's Encyclical Ut Unum Sint (That All May...

87), which is immediately followed by a reflection of the Holy Father on the ministry of unity of the bishop of Rome (No. 88 to No. 96). This is the heart of our present dialogue on church unity and the papal office.
Story and Promise: A Brief Theology of the Gospel About Jesus

God, occurring as the utterance of such specific final promise, is the Power of a specific future. He occurs as the living utterance of one man to another in which the future of the past Jesus is the possibility and challenge that then ...
Canon and Creed

No one is more qualified to address that question than Robert W. Jenson, who shows how canon and creed work together and interact and that neither is an adequate or sufficient to guide Christian faith without the help of the other.
Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics: Essays on God and Creation

Gathered together in this volume is a collection of his proposals for theology laboring under this task of revisionary metaphysics.
The Triune Identity: God According to the Gospel

This book presents a bold venture in theology, combining a presentation, explanation, analysis, and reinterpretation of trinitarian language.
Ezekiel (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)

"--John Nolland, Review of Biblical Literature "Preachers will . . . find considerable assistance and rich theological material in Leviticus. . . . With this volume, [Ephraim Radner] makes a serious contribution to biblical scholarship.
Systematic Theology: Volume 1: the Triune God

This volume begins with an extended discussion of Jenson's methodology, and addresses questions on the nature of the Christian God, including the classic christological and trinitarian questions.
Story and Promise: A Brief Theology of the Gospel About Jesus

This book clarifies the traditional problems of faith, and also raises the revolutionary issues marking the end of this century.