Reviews for Mapping Public Theology: Beyond Culture, Identity, and Difference

The average rating for Mapping Public Theology: Beyond Culture, Identity, and Difference based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-10-10 00:00:00 Justin Hennis i would have given this a higher rating had it been shorter. i feel like this would have worked better as an article instead of a book. i really liked what he had to say, but it took him so damn long to say it that i got tired of reading it.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-28 00:00:00 Norman Rice Jenson's second volume is as refreshingly Christo-centric (and so Trinitarian) as his first. He moves from speaking of creation as that general "other" in God's Trinitarian conversational space, to the spoken creatures themselves, and, finally, to the fulfillment of God's works. While satisfying in most of his conclusions, and unarguably lovely in each of his arguments, Jenson's final comments, both upon the state of unbelieving Israel and the unbelieving Gentile nations, are a heart-wrenching discord within his opus. His address and development of his apocalyptic theology, full of the Prophetic and Pauline discourse on the subject, neglects Christ's gospel statements concerning human judgement and creation's fulfillment, in which all such statements must, if Jenson's Christology is to hold together, find their meaning. If Jenson had facilitated this conversation, he might still have argued to the same conclusions. However, his neglect of these passages (notably Matt 25), in light of his thoroughness in preceding doctrinal arguments, feels more willful neglect than oversight. It is difficult to see such a lively and Trinitarian theologian balk at the finish line. In all the rest of the work, he truly does present a winsome and lovely conversation-- one that is a joy to join.