A review by theologiaviatorum
A Theology in Outline: Can These Bones Live? by Robert W. Jenson

informative fast-paced

3.0

This is a polished transcript of undergraduate lectures Jenson gave at Princeton University. In it he treats the standard topics of systematic theology including God, creation, sin, salvation, and the church. He also briefly discusses whether Christian theology or Christianity itself has anything to say to our postmodern world, or is it all dead bones? And if it is dead bones, can they live again? Of course serving the God of the resurrection he believes that they can live again, that Christ can address our people in our time. This book took a conversational and narrative form. Sometimes he was exceptionally insightful. Other times I thought he only vaguely gestured in a particular direction and—unless you were already clued into the conversation by previous education—it was too vague to be helpful. Still, Jenson is a great mind and I cannot discourage the reading of anything with his name on it.