The identification of God with beauty is one of the most aesthetically rich notions within Christian thought. To avoid a theological account of beauty becoming a mere projection of our wildest desires, it must be reined in by dogmatics. This book employs the thought of Robert W Jenson to construct a dogmatic aesthetics.
The identification of God with beauty is one of the most aesthetically rich notions within Christian thought. To avoid a theological account of beauty...
Modern Protestant theology has tended to shun metaphysics. The philosophical underpinnings of our theological traditions have cracked under the weight of modern scrutiny. Robert Jenson is a theologian who has embraced the critique of inherited metaphysics, but who then finds contained within the gospel itself the basis for further and more specific critiques: the story of Jesus of Nazareth. Jenson argues that the appropriate response of theology to the contemporary situation is not to reject metaphysics, but to develop new and more radical metaphysical proposals. For several decades now, he...
Modern Protestant theology has tended to shun metaphysics. The philosophical underpinnings of our theological traditions have cracked under the weight...
