The Triune Story

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The book is capacious enough to accommodate readers of a variety of interests and ecclesial commitments. * Joseph Mangina, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto , Modern Theology * This volume gives readers a glimpse into the development of Jenson's own thinking on the nature of Scripture, its interpretation, and its role within the community of faith ... Anyone who takes up these essays will not set them aside without a challenge, both spiritual and intellectual, to read Scripture with greater care, and with greater openness to the inbreaking of the Triune God whose story the Bible reveals. * Theology Forum * Robert Jenson was undoubtedly one of the most influential and original English-speaking theologians of the last half century, eloquent, controversial, profoundly in love with the God of Jewish and Christian Scripture. This invaluable collection shows us the depth and quality of his engagement with the text of Scripture: we follow him in his close reading of various passages and his tracing of various themes, and emerge with a renewed appreciation of the scope of his doctrinal vision. He offers a model of committed, prayerful exegesis which is both a joy and a challenge to read. * Rowan Williams * Robert Jenson never needed to be reminded that the most interesting thing about the Bible is God. For those frustrated by biblical scholars apparently willing to harangue us about anything but God, The Triune Story will come as a healing draught. With vigor, clarity, and learning, Jenson reminds us that the apostolic faith, ancient yet always future, is the only true key to the understanding and interpretation of Scripture. * Christopher Bryan, author of The Resurrection of the Messiah and Listening to the Bible * The never ending task of helping students learn how to read scripture theologically just got a lot easier with this collection. Jenson had a lot to say about the theological interpretation of scripture -- much of it important and worthy of offering to future generations as an able guide into the strange world of the bible. Jenson's work on scripture will also be studied by generations of historians and theologians who will want to see a theologian in full intellectual flight thinking about scripture and society and doing so with a seriousness almost unmatched in the latter half of the twenty century. This is a book both important and necessary. * Willie James Jennings, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies, Yale Divinity School * In a cultural and theological milieu in the twentieth century that viewed the Bible as a book from the past, Robert Jenson put the biblical story as a living Word of God at the center of his thought. The essays in this rich collection are as fresh and stimulating today as they were when first published. * Robert Louis Wilken, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity, University of Virginia * The chief value of The Triune Story lies not in the insights into various texts but in the way it shows a fertile imagination unleashed upon God's narrative in the canon of Scripture. * Ian Olson, Mockingbird *