Matt Jenson

Books

• Theology in the Democracy of the Dead: A Dialogue with the Living Tradition, Jenson, M., (Baker Academic, 2019).
• Distinguishing the Church: Explorations in Word, Sacrament, and Discipline, ed. Peters, G. and Jenson, M., (Pickwick, 2019).
• Marking the Church: Essays in Ecclesiology, ed. Peters, G. and Jenson, M., (Pickwick, 2016).
• The Church: A Guide for the Perplexed, Jenson, M. and Wilhite, D., (T&T Clark, 2010).
• The Gravity of Sin: Augustine, Luther and Barth on ‘homo incurvatus in se’, Jenson, M., (T&T Clark, 2007).

Articles 

• “Does the Body Keep the Score After the Game Is Over? Personal Identity and Perfection in the Resurrected Body,” Jenson, M., Pro Ecclesia, October 2023. 
• “In Other Words: The Difficult Question of Jesus’ Divinity in Schleiermacher,” Jenson, M., Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies, September 2023.
• “Response #1,” Jenson, M., Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, May 2022.
• “‘Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom’: Barth on Ecclesial Agency,” Jenson, M., Pro Ecclesia, November 2015.
• “An Introduction to American Evangelicals for Evangelical Lutherans,” Jenson, M. Lutheran Forumˆ, September 2015.
• “A Brief Theology of Images of Jesus,” Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture, Jenson, M., 2013.
• “Evangelical and Ecumenical?,” Jenson, M., Ecclesiology, January 2012.
• “Suffering the Promise of God: Engaging Oswald Bayer,” Jenson, M., International Journal of Systematic Theology, April 2011.
• “A Response to David Congdon,” Jenson, M., Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture, June 2010.
• “Real Presence: Contemporaneity in Bonhoeffer’s Christology,” Jenson, M., Scottish Journal of Theology, May 2005.

Book Chapters

• “Either/Or: On the Necessary, But Maverick, Distinction of Church and World,” in Confessing the Church: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics, Jenson, Matt, ed. Crisp, O., and Sanders, F., (Zondervan Academic, 2024), pp. 99-116. 
• “Church,” in Reformed Dogmatics in Dialogue: The Theology of Karl Barth and Jonathan Edwards, Jenson, Matt, ed. Anizor, U. and Strobel, K., (Lexham Academic, 2022), pp. 257–83.
• “Barth’s Doctrine of Sin,” in Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth, Jenson, M., ed. Hunsinger G. and Johnson, K. (Wiley Blackwell, 2020), pp. 197–206.
• “Foreword,” in The Monkhood of All Believers: The Monastic Foundation of Christian Spirituality, Jenson, M., Peters, G. (Baker Academic, 2018), pp. ix–x. 
• “The Church Curved in on Itself: Sin, Holiness, Communion, and Mission,” in Marking the Church, Jenson, M. ed. Peters, G. and Jenson, M. (Pickwick, 2016), pp. 76–91.
• “Sin,” in New Dictionary of Theology: Historical and Systematic, rev. ed., Jenson, M. and Crisp, O. ed. Davie M. et. al. (InterVarsity Press, 2016). 
• “Much Ado about Nothing: The Necessary Non-Sufficiency of Faith,” in Luther Refracted: The Reformer’s Ecumenical Legacy, Jenson, M., ed. Małysz, P. and Nelson, D. (Fortress Press, 2015), pp. 141–68.
• “Foreword,” in Simon, Who is Called Peter: Life as One of the Apostles, Jenson, M., Mulligan, M. (Wipf & Stock, 2014), pp. viii–x. 
• “Barth,” in A Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, Jenson, M., ed. Pollmann, K. and Otten, W. (Oxford University Press, 2013). 
• “The Church,” in Living Witness: Explorations in Missional Ethics, Jenson, M., ed. Draycott, A. and Rowe, J. (Wipf & Stock, 2013), pp. 93–113.