1. Robert William Jenson was a leading American Lutheran and ecumenical theologian.
14 Facts About Robert Jenson
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Robert Jenson was the co-founder of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology and is known for his two-volume Systematic Theology published between 1997 and 1999.
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Robert Jenson studied classics and philosophy at Luther College in the late 1940s, before beginning theological studies at Luther Seminary in 1951.
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Robert Jenson began reading historical-critical scholars like Hermann Gunkel and Sigmund Mowinckel, and as a result he became deeply interested in the biblical texts and in the theological significance of the Old Testament.
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At Luther Seminary, Robert Jenson was assistant to the renowned orthodox Lutheran theologian, Herman Preus.
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Robert Jenson attended a seminar there with Martin Heidegger.
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From 1960 to 1966, Robert Jenson was thus left with the task of helping to rebuild an entire religion department, and he became especially involved in the development of a new philosophy department.
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Robert Jenson finally left Luther College to spend three years as Dean and Tutor of Lutheran Studies at Mansfield College, Oxford University.
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At Oxford, Robert Jenson supervised the doctoral work of Colin Gunton, who went on to become one of Great Britain's most distinguished and influential systematic theologians.
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Robert Jenson began to engage deeply with patristic thought, which led him to develop a creative new proposal for trinitarian theology in The Triune Identity.
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Robert Jenson interacted extensively with the work of Catholic theologians like Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar and with Eastern Orthodox theologians like Maximus the Confessor, John Zizioulas, and Vladimir Lossky.
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Robert Jenson was joined in Northfield by his friend Carl Braaten, and together they founded the conservative Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology in 1991.
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Robert Jenson continued to teach at St Olaf College until 1998, when he retired and took up a position as Senior Scholar for Research at the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Robert Jenson died in his home in Princeton on September 5,2017.