Trinity, Time, and Church: A Response to the Theology of Robert W. Jenson

by Colin Ewart Gunton

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2000

Overview

With the publication of his two-volume Systematic Theology, Robert W. Jenson has established himself as a distinctive voice in Christian theology. In Trinity, Time, and Church leading scholars from around the world and from diverse faith traditions critically engage the major themes of Jenson’s thought. These rich essays both celebrate Jenson’s theological achievement and probe what some of the authors regard as the more contentious of his contributions.

Key Features

• Includes an introduction to the life and legacy of Robert Jenson
• Provides critical engagement of the major themes of Jenson’s thought
• Contains essyays from a wide variety of theological perspectives

Contents

• Robert William Jenson — A Personal Memoir
• Intimacy: The Character of Robert Jenson’s Theology
• Handing Over the Name: Christian Reflection on the Divine Name YHWH
• Theology and Philosophy: An Exchange with Robert Jenson
• Eternity, Time, and the Trinitarian God
• Jenson on Time
• Creation and Mediation in the Theology of Robert W. Jenson: An Encounter and a Convergence
• The Lutheran Capax Lives
• Once Again, Christ and Culture: Remarks on the Christological Bases of a Theology of Culture
• Robert Jenson’s Soteriology
• Doctrine of Justification and Trinitarian Ontology
• Robert Jenson’s Theology of History
• Is Pentecost a Peer of Easter? Scripture, Liturgy, and the Proprium of the Holy Spirit
• Robert Jenson’s Ecclesiology from a Roman Catholic Perspective
• The Parlement of Foules and the Communion of Saints: Jenson’s Appropriation of Patristic and Medieval Theology
• The Church as Polity? The Lutheran Context of Robert W. Jenson’s Ecclesiology
• Jenson in the Public Square: Thinking the Church
• Only Theology Overcomes Ethics; or, Why “Ethicists” Must Learn from Jenson
• A Theology of the Political
• Vera Visibilia: Robert Jenson on the Sacraments
• Eschatology and Mission in the Theology of Robert Jenson

Contributors

• Colin Gunton
• Carl E. Braaten
• Geoffrey Wainwright
• Richard John Neuhaus
• David S. Yeago
• A. N. Williams
• Susan K. Wood
• Robert Louis Wilken
• Jeremy Ive
• Tuomo Mannermaa
• Gerhard O. Forde
• Christoph Schwöbel
• Gabriel Fackre
• Douglas Knight
• Wolfhart Pannenberg
• David Novak
• C. R. Seitz
• James J. Buckley

Product Details

• Title: Trinity, Time, and Church: A Response to the Theology of Robert W. Jenson
• Editor: Colin E. Gunton
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 2011
• Pages: 342
• Resource Type: Collected Essays
• Topic: Theology

About Colin Ewart Gunton

Colin E. Gunton (1941–2003) was professor of systematic theology at King’s College in London from 1969 until his death. He was appointed professor of theology in 1984 and then served as head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies from 1993–1996. In 1992 Gunton delivered the Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford and in 1993 he delivered the Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary. Together with John Webster, Gunton co-founded the International Journal of Systematic Theology.

Gunton is often cited as one of the most important British theologians of his generation. Just before his death, he was awarded the earned D. D. by the University of Oxford, where he had taken his three previous degrees. Also just before his death, King’s College planned to make him a fellow of the college, its highest honor, which was then awarded posthumously.

He has authored several works, including The Doctrine of Creation: Essays in Dogmatics, History and Philosophy, The Actuality of Atonement, Christ and Creation, and the titles in the Colin E. Gunton Theology Collection.

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