Quotes from Robert W. Jenson

Since the biblical God can truly be identified by narrative, his hypostatic being, his self-identity, is constituted in dramatic coherence. The classic definition of this sort of coherence is provided by Aristotle, who noticed that a good story is one in which events occur "unexpectedly but on account of each other" [Poetics 1452a3], so that before each decisive event we cannot predict it, but afterwards see it was just what had to happen.

Can stories as stories be true of reality other than that posited in the storytelling itself? Can Aristotle's criterion of a good story apply to nonfiction, as he himself did not think it did?

Any pattern of thought that in any way abstracts God 'himself' from this person [Jesus], from his death or his career or his birth or his family or his Jewishness or his maleness or his teaching or the particular intercession and rule he as risen now exercises, has, according to Nicaea, no place in the church.

God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt.

Modernity was defined by the attempt to live in a universal story without a universal storyteller. The experiment has failed.

The canon without the creed will not serve to protect the church against perversion of the Gospel, and neither will the creed without the canon.

The doctrine of the Trinity is the Christian church's answer to the question, How does truth hang together? And how may it be grasped as one?

The doctrine of Trinity is simply the insistence, against all objections from otherwise founded intuitions of deity, that God in himself is not other than he is in his history with us.

Death indeed will terminate my story, but it will not conclude it; for it will make all my hopes into might-have-beens and my fears into never-minds, and so make absurd the anticipatory coherences by which I have lived. if I am to have a conclusion, it will have to be a resurection.