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Title: The Triune Identity: God According to the Gospel by Robert W. Jenson ISBN: 1-57910-962-4 Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.50

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Rating: 5
Summary: A true tour de force
Comment: Jenson's book on the Trinity is one of the most original and creative treatments written in the past thirty years. He takes Rahner's dictum "The economic Trinity is the immanent Trinity" and pushes it as hard as it can go: God defines himself in the history of Jesus of Nazareth. And this is the Gospel!

In the first two chapters, he proposes that the Christian God has a revealed name--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--which in fact has fulfilled the Tetragramaton revealed to Moses. He then shows how this Name structures Christian prayer, worship, and proclamation in the New Testament. He then helpfully unpacks the Trinitarian debates of the Nicene period and shows why the Church insisted on the trinitarian revoluation when it could easily have simply adopted a more Hellenistic understanding of deity.

I have to confess, though, that the last chapter on the infinity of God has always eluded me.

Jenson has developed, and at points, corrected his thinking in his *Systematic Theology*; but *Triune Identity* remains a classic and is must reading for all who are interested in Trinitarian theology.

Jenson's work is profitably read in conversation with Wolfhart Pannenberg.