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Being and Becoming
Jesus is the “living one” (Revelation 1:18). He doesn’t mean that He has always been. He is…
2016 Presidential Candidates as Described by the Smash-Hit Musical Hamilton
Hillary Clinton It must be nice, it must be niceTo have Washington on your side Bernie Sanders…
Emma’s Moral Imagination
Jane Austen’s Emma is centrally concerned with character formation and guidance. Rich, beautiful, independent, Emma Woodhouse has…
Sharing Christ’s Sufferings
Much of 2 Corinthians is Paul’s defense of his apostolic ministry, which is also a defense of…
Theater of Suicide
Suicide has been the province of psychiatrists, sociologists, moralists, theologians, and the occasional anthropologist (Durkheim). It has…
First Links — 11.13.15
Speaking Truth to Pain Noah Millman, American Conservative The Priest and the Pieces of Christ’s Body he…
The Multivocity of “Justification”
Robert Jenson argues in Unbaptized God that debates about justification regularly fail to notice the multivocal character of…
God’s Will and Ours
In the second volume of his Systematic Theology, Jenson raises pointed, Edwardsean questions about free will theodicies. Such…
Word and Image
Jenson observes that “Israel knew itself as created by God’s word, in the exact sense in which…
Is There Prayer on Mars?
Mars, the Red Planet, has stoked the imagination of stargazers for a long, long time. Could life…
Use the Buycott
As the Indiana RFRA episode last spring demonstrated all-too-well, corporate America is no longer non-partisan. When it…
Scripture and Trinity
“God speaks in Jesus in and through the texts of the Old and New Testament,” writes Francis…
Now I Know
In a 2002 essay on “The Bible and the Trinity, Jenson reflected on the Trinitarian features of…
Jesus the Prophet
David Turner offers a detailed study of Jesus’ “woes” to the scribes and Pharisees in Matthew 23…
God’s Mercy in Time
Here’s an effort to summarize Robert Jenson’s take on God-and-time, written with faux-Jensonesque pithiness. Is God eternally…
