Matt Jenson

Matt Jenson is a systematic theologian specializing in the doctrine of sin and ecclesiology. In so doing, he is motivated by a desire to understand what it means to be human in terms of the relationships for which we were created and in which we live, move and have our being. He holds a BA in literature and philosophy from Wheaton College and a Ph.D. in systematic theology from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland), where he was part of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts. He is the author of The Gravity of Sin: Augustine, Luther and Barth on 'homo incurvatus in se'. Jenson is a happy and grateful part of Fountain of Life Covenant Church in Long Beach.

Publications

Books

• The Gravity of Sin: Augustine, Luther, and Barth on 'homo incurvatus in se' (T & T Clark, 2007)

Articles

• (with Oliver D. Crisp) “Sin,” in the revised edition of The New Dictionary of Theology, eds. Stephen R. Holmes, John C. McDowell and Steve Carter (IVP, forthcoming)
• “Barth,” in A Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, ed. Karla Pollmann and Willemien Otten (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
• “Beyond Tolerance and Difference: An Interview with Kristen Deede Johnson,” in Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture 4:2 (Summer 2008): 61-65
• “Sin Happens,” Books and Culture (July/August 2008): 36
• “Real Presence: Contemporaneity in Bonhoeffer's Christology,” Scottish Journal of Theology 58:2 (2005): 143-160

Activities

• Review essay of three books by German Lutheran theologian Oswald Bayer
• (with David Wilhite) Church: A Guide for the Perplexed (T & T Clark, due Fall 2009)