Robert Jenson Posts

  • April 2, 2010

    Pastor-Theologians and Academic Theologians: Toward a Healthy Division of Labor, Part 2

    In a previous post I raised a question about the necessity of pastor-theologians in light of gifted, ecclesially sensitive academic theologians such as Jenson, Guton, Hart, Webster, Vanhoozer, etc.  Is there anything that a pastor-theologian brings to the table that isn’t already being brought by academic theologians? And if so, what?

    Nearly all of my study up to this point has been in historical soteriology (Augustine, the Cappadocians, Athanasius, Anselm, Calvin, Luther, …

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    Categories: Academic Theology | John Webster | Pastor-theologian | Robert Jenson

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  • 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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    Categories: Robert Jenson | Theology

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