Jesus in the Trinity - by Lincoln Harvey (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Robert W. Jenson (1930-2017) is America's most important theologian. He thinks Jesus of Nazareth is always and for ever one of the Trinity. "Mary's boy and Pilate's victim" is the Father's eternal Son, so there has never been an unfleshed Word. The God of the Gospel is much stranger than we have imagined.

In Jesus in the Trinity, Lincoln Harvey offers a penetrating guide into Jenson's remarkable proposal. Demonstrating Jenson's signature moves, as well as his fundamental re-working of the dogmatic tradition, Harvey shows how an evangelized metaphysics can make sense of the identity of Jesus Christ.

With time, space, causation, and God's act of creation utterly re-imagined through the course of these pages, reality will look very different in light of Jenson's startling theology.

Review Quotes

"Jenson's style was to pack centuries of thought into single phrases, but Harvey reverses the trend. Where Jenson sped up, Harvey slows down and savors, unpacks, and meditates. This is a contemplative biography of Jenson and his thought, and, like Harvey, we will find ourselves bowing in the company of the recognizable, yet strangely original God we serve." -- Julie Canlis, Whitworth University, Washington

"A fast-paced and exciting book about a fast-paced and exciting thinker. Lincoln Harvey's illuminating account of Jenson's thought brings into focus some of the most challenging and contested questions of theology today." -- Ben Myers, Christian Heritage College, Brisbane

"This is a guidebook in the best possible sense, as Lincoln Harvey makes the reader confront the disconcerting originality of Jenson's thinking whilst discovering the order and beauty within his carefully elaborated and skillfully orchestr'ted points and counterpoints. This exciting book is a lively celebration of the work of a theologian who is rightly described as "America's theologian'." -- Christoph Schwobel, University of St Andrews