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Lincoln Harvey – Theology of Robert Jenson

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Judaism, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8666 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Episode: In this episode we discuss Lincoln Harvey’s thrilling guide to the work of Robert W. Jenson (1930-2017). Jenson, arguably America’s most important theologian, is so because 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. It follows from this that the God of the Gospel is much stranger than we imagine. Harvey’s book presents an astonishingly lucid and 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 only an evangelized metaphysics can make sense of the identity of Jesus Christ. Our discussion in this episode thus plunges into strange territory, raising odd questions and answers to such weighty matters as the nature of time, space, God’s act of creation, the centrality of Jesus, substance metaphysics and much more. The post Lincoln Harvey – Theology of Robert Jenson first appeared on OnScript.

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I'm a co-host with Matt Bates, Drew Johnson, Aaronheim, Chris Tilling, and Amy Brown Hughes.

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So we have a really great episode for you here with Chris Tilling interviewing Lincoln Harvey,

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Enjoy the episode.

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So welcome to OnScript during this rather strange season, but today it's an honor to

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introduce my good friend Lincoln Harvey.

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He is the assistant dean at St. Miletus College and a theologian

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who has a huge impact on my own life and theology. And sorry for saying this in his presence,

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but not only because of his brilliance, and I use that word advisedly, but also because he models

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something important in the life of a theologian. Namely, he refuses to take himself too seriously,

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and perhaps you'll see some of that in the conversation that emerges.

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This is to say that Lincoln has an extremely keen and sharp theological mind,

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and he can talk shop with the best of them,

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