“Robert Jenson was undoubtedly one of the most influential and original English-speaking theologians of the last half century, eloquent, controversial, profoundly in love with the God of Jewish and Christian Scripture. This invaluable collection shows us the depth and quality of his engagement with the text of Scripture: we follow him in his close reading of various passages and his tracing of various themes, and emerge with a renewed appreciation of the scope of his doctrinal vision. He offers a model of committed, prayerful exegesis which is both a joy and a challenge to read.”

“The never ending task of helping students learn how to read scripture theologically just got a lot easier with this collection. Jenson had a lot to say about the theological interpretation of scripture—much of it important and worthy of offering to future generations as an able guide into the strange world of the bible. Jenson’s work on scripture will also be studied by generations of historians and theologians who will want to see a theologian in full intellectual flight thinking about scripture and society and doing so with a seriousness almost unmatched in the latter half of the twenty century. This is a book both important and necessary.”

“[T]he present volume makes a significant contribution to filling a lacuna and thus enabling proper reception. Jenson never published a monograph on the problems of Scripture for theology today, despite the fact that he wrestled mightily with the task of reading Scripture theologically throughout his long career. A representative spectrum of Jenson’s writings on Scripture, formal and occasional, is here collected and organized both chronologically and topically. This arrangement aids in following the steps Jenson took working through various difficulties before arriving at his mature positions . . . . [T]t may be that in reclaiming the Bible for the humiliated church of today and firmly locating theology there in the ruins of Christendom, Jenson’s seminal reiterations for our time of the prophetic and apostolic Scriptures to produce knowledge of God will provide the acute diagnosis of the present temptation to fascism. Reception, therefore, is urgent.”

“In a cultural and theological milieu in the twentieth century that viewed the Bible as a book from the past, Robert Jenson put the biblical story as a living Word of God at the center of his thought. The essays in this rich collection are as fresh and stimulating today as they were when first published.”

“Robert Jenson never needed to be reminded that the most interesting thing about the Bible is God. For those frustrated by biblical scholars apparently willing to harangue us about anything but God, The Triune Story will come as a healing draught. With vigor, clarity, and learning, Jenson reminds us that the apostolic faith, ancient yet always future, is the only true key to the understanding and interpretation of Scripture.”

“[T]his book shows why Jenson is a theologian who will remain important for all Christians who hold to divine revelation as written down in Scripture. Jenson’s work is a touchstone for Protestants and Catholics who seek resources for navigating between theological liberalism and fundamentalism. . . . By bringing together many of Jenson’s best insights, Brad East has demonstrated the abiding importance of this great ecumenical theologian.”

“The chief value of The Triune Story lies not in the insights into various texts but in the way it shows a fertile imagination unleashed upon God’s narrative in the canon of Scripture.”

“This volume gives readers a glimpse into the development of Jenson’s own thinking on the nature of Scripture, its interpretation, and its role within the community of faith. . . . Anyone who takes up these essays will not set them aside without a challenge, both spiritual and intellectual, to read Scripture with greater care, and with greater openness to the inbreaking of the Triune God whose story the Bible reveals.”