Jenson offers a corrective to Thomas’s cycle of exitus-reditus , according to which all things that come from God are ordered to return. This is “misleading,” Jenson says, “since saving history is God’s journey with us , not our journey away from and back to him.”
That is about as good a summary of Jenson’s life’s work as you could ask for.
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