David H. Jensen
Autor von Graced Vulnerability: A Theology Of Childhood
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David H. Jensen is the academic dean and professor in the Clarence N. and Betty B. Frierson Distinguished Chair of Reformed Theology at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Denis R. Janz, series editor, is Provost Distinguished Professor of the History of Christianity at Loyola University, New mehr anzeigen Orleans. He has written and edited many books, including A Reformation Reader, Second Edition (Fortress Press, 2008). weniger anzeigen
Werke von David H. Jensen
1 & 2 Samuel: A Theological Commentary on the Bible (Belief: a Theological Commentary on the Bible) (2015) 15 Exemplare
Christian Understandings of Christ: The Historical Trajectory (Christian Understandings) (2019) 2 Exemplare
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If a consensual sex act is joyous, intimate, faith-affirming, and legal, then Jensen seems to have no strong objection to it. Most endearing of all is his admission that the Bible, while still the preeminent guidebook for Christian faith, is mildly outdated on many matters of human sexuality. Jensen combines Biblical theology with writing of Church fathers, theologians, and contemporary philosophers to come to a modern interpretation of classical theology. This new theology comes to understand and delineate the motivations of celibacy, singleness, premarital sex, and marital sex inside their own contexts and offers the reader a new way of thinking about each one. The writing does tend to get a bit graphic at times, but you have to remember that you did choose to read a book about human sexuality, and this one may be one of the better books out there for this. A thought-provoking and enlightening read.… (mehr)