The Freedom of God wrangles with the unfolding legacy of Christian theologian Robert Jenson and presents the first in-depth study of his teaching on the Holy Spirit. It is a specialist monograph that will entice those with interest in academic theology, systematics, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century Christian thought, especially the post-Barthian historicist electionism and the post-Rahnerian immanent and economic trinitarian project conversations. Devoted readers of the works of Robert Jenson, scholars of pneumatology, third-article theology, or pentecostal/renewal movements, practitioners of liberation theology, and supporters of ecumenical theology will all be particularly gripped by the analysis developed in this work. As a text, the Freedom of God could find a home in graduate seminars, seminary classrooms, and in classes for advanced undergraduates for those studying Jenson as a way into systematic theology and contemporary Christian thought or in any thematic/doctrinal courses on the Holy Spirit or the Trinity.

About the Author
James Daryn Henry is visiting scholar in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.

Reviews
Henry's book provides not only a masterful analysis of Jenson's treatment of the Holy Spirit, but a theological and ethical foundation for global dialog across religious traditions and cultures. The implications of Henry's work for fruitful ecumenical and intercultural discussion are profound and exciting. -- Roberto Goizueta, Professor of Theology, Boston College
This is a welcome addition to the growing number of scholarly engagements with of one of America's most original and creative theologians, Robert W. Jenson. In the first full-length study of Jenson's pneumatology, Henry masterfully unpacks Jenson's view of the Spirit as "freedom in God's own life" and makes a compelling case for its capacity to mediate between traditional interpretations of the Spirit's procession and more contemporary emphases on the Spirit's economic activity of mission and liberation. -- Cheryl M. Peterson, Trinity Lutheran Seminary
In this brilliantly conceived and elegantly written book, Daryn Henry celebrates, defends, critiques, and enriches Robert Jenson's central characterization of the Spirit as the freedom of both God and creation. Henry succeeds not only in his stated objective of demonstrating the generative power of Jenson's pneumatology for modern theological discourse, but also in establishing his own credentials as a creative and methodologically sophisticated theological voice. -- Khaled Anatolios, University of Notre Dame



Book Information
ISBN 9781978700390
Author James Daryn Henry
Format Hardback
Page Count 338
Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 694g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 160mm * 32mm