#robertjenson

I’m currently reading Robert Jenson’s ‘Theology in Outline: Can These Bones Live?’, and so far, it’s a great read! The book is, pretty much, a transcript of lectures he gave to undergraduates at Princeton on an intro to Christian Theology. The lectures have a casual feel about them, as if he’s reclining back to tell the story of Christian theology through history, as we enjoy our cup of tea, engrossed by the story of God with his people. 

Here’s a short quote, describing the end result of centuries of cognitive dissonance between Aristotle’s deified ‘it’, unaffected by anything, and the God of Israel and the risen Lord Jesus. Thank God for Athanasius and the Cappadocians, for now we can answer the question:

“Who is this God? Well, he is God the author of the story with his people. Who is this God? He is God settled into that story and an actor in it. Who is God? He is the wind of God that moves history. Or in the language that came to be standard, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And any one of them is a perfect and complete identification of the one God”