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Since Socrates, the effort to understand ourselves precisely as human has been the central occupation of Western thought. In this profound treatise Robert Jenson shows that all philosophical attempts to accurately think the self are doomed to failure and that the category "human" is itself unthinkable without reference to God.
As Jenson says at the outset of his book, the problem of anthropology is that the very concepts we need to use when we talk about ourselves as human resist being thought. On Thinking the Human explains why this is so. Under chapter titles that reflect the problem's different facets - "Thinking Death," "Thinking Consciousness," "Thinking Freedom," "Thinking Reality," "Thinking Wickedness," and "Thinking Love" - Jenson limns the difficulty inherent in each concept and then shows how the unthinkable becomes thinkable in light of the triune God of Scripture.
Carefully constructed and skillfully worded, On Thinking the Human will be valued by anyone reflecting deeply on what it means to be human.
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Robert W. Jenson served as Senior Scholar for Research at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ. Dr. Jenson also taught at St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, PA and Oxford University. He also helped found the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology. He is the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Pro Ecclesia and is the author of Systematic Theology (Oxford Press).
