Robert Jenson Posts

  • January 28, 2010

    Jenson on Prolegomena

    In his Systematic Theology, Vol 1, Robert Jenson (an ecclesial theologian in every sense of the term) discusses the church’s misstep in responding to Enlightenment epistemology.
    “Catholicism met this challenge by building intellectual walls around the church, thus temporarily dropping out of the story we are tracing here. Protestantism first met it by making the doctrine of scriptural authority into an antecedent basis for theology’s claims. Thus traditional natural arguments for the reliability of Scripture came to bear a new load: we may, it was said, believe Christian doctrine because it …

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