%0 Journal Article
%T Timely, Transcendent, and Alive: Trinity in JensonĄ¯s Understanding of the God¨CWorld Relation
%A Scott P. Rice
%J Pro Ecclesia
%@ 2631-8334
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1063851219846700
%X Robert W. Jenson conceives of the God-world relation through a temporally inclusive idea of God that many critics find objectionable. Central to JensonĄ¯s proposal is that God precedes the history that God lives with others by means of GodĄ¯s own future. Does this make sense? In this essay I argue that it does, and that JensonĄ¯s account needs to be demystified. The key to this, particularly, demonstrating the coherence of the God-time relation in view of the divine futurity, lies in the understanding of JensonĄ¯s trinitarian theology. I will show that JensonĄ¯s temporal idea of God, with a focus on his doctrine of the Spirit, is consonant with the trinitarian relations and should not be identified with the poles of created time in an overtly literal way. I also draw on JensonĄ¯s trinitarian logic of divine unity to illustrate the reality of God in the process of time in his doctrine of creation
%K Eschatology
%K Futurity
%K God-world relation
%K Robert W. Jenson
%K Trinity
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1063851219846700