{"id":9966,"date":"2017-09-25T10:38:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T14:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9966"},"modified":"2017-09-25T10:38:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T14:38:36","slug":"honoring-theologian-robert-w-jenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9966","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Theologian Robert W. Jenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Throughout modernity, the church has presumed that its mission was directed to persons who\u00a0<em>already<\/em> understood themselves as inhabitants of a narratable world. Moreover, since the God of a narratable world is the God of Scripture, the church was also able to presume that the narrative sense people had antecedently tried to make of their lives had somehow to cohere with the particular story, \u201cthe gospel,\u201d that the church had to communicate. Somebody who could read Rex Stout or the morning paper with pleasure and increase of self-understanding was for that very reason taken as already situated to grasp the church\u2019s message (which did not of course mean that he or she would necessarily believe it). In effect, the church could say to her hearers: \u201cYou know that story you think you must be living out in the real world? We are here to tell you about its turning point and outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But this is precisely what the postmodern church cannot presume. What then? The obvious answer is that if the church does not\u00a0<em>find<\/em> her hearers antecedently inhabiting a narratable world, then the church must herself\u00a0<em>be<\/em> that world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mars Hill Audio calls Robert Jenson, who taught at at Luther College, Mansfield College (Oxford), Lutheran Seminary, and St. Olaf College, one of our &#8220;greatest living theologians.&#8221; He passed away early this month. The above quotation is from his essay\u00a0\u201cHow the World Lost Its Story,\u201d which <a href=\"https:\/\/marshillaudio.org\/page\/memoriam-robert-w-jenson-1930-2017?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Addenda%2009-22-2017&amp;utm_content=Addenda%2009-22-2017+CID_bb984d270008422c9e875bb7fda3d3ca&amp;utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&amp;utm_term=Click%20here\">Ken Myers reads in this recording<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout modernity, the church has presumed that its mission was directed to persons who\u00a0already understood themselves as inhabitants of a narratable world. Moreover, since the God of a narratable world is the God of Scripture, the church was also able to presume that the narrative sense people had antecedently tried to make of their lives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9966\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Honoring Theologian Robert W. Jenson<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[1778,2404],"class_list":["post-9966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-mars-hill-audio","tag-robert-w-jenson"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}