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Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of St. Andrews
  • B.A., Wheaton College

Biography

Dr. Matt Jenson is a systematic theologian specializing in theological anthropology and ecclesiology. He holds a B.A. in literature and philosophy from Wheaton College and a Ph.D. in theology from the University of St. Andrews, where he was part of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts. Jenson is a happy and grateful part of Fountain of Life Covenant Church in Long Beach and an ordained minister in the Evangelical Covenant Church.

Affiliations

  • Evangelical Theological Society

Awards

  • Award for Excellence in Mentoring Students 51蹤獲 2013 La Mirada, CA.

    Publications (Selected)

    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 Forum, 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 Bonhoeffers 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. 25783.
    • Barths Doctrine of Sin, in Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth, Jenson, M., ed. Hunsinger G. and Johnson, K. (Wiley Blackwell, 2020), pp. 197206.
    • Foreword, in The Monkhood of All Believers: The Monastic Foundation of Christian Spirituality, Jenson, M., Peters, G. (Baker Academic, 2018), pp. ixx. 
    • 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. 7691.
    • 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 Reformers Ecumenical Legacy, Jenson, M., ed. Maysz, P. and Nelson, D. (Fortress Press, 2015), pp. 14168.
    • Foreword, in Simon, Who is Called Peter: Life as One of the Apostles, Jenson, M., Mulligan, M. (Wipf & Stock, 2014), pp. viiix. 
    • 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. 93113.

    Presentations

    • Talbot Chapel, 51蹤獲, La Mirada, California. Presented on An Extraordinary Means of Grace. November 2023.
    • Faculty Conference Workshop, 51蹤獲, La Mirada, California. Presented on How to Have Conversations with LGBTQ Students. August 2022.
    • Invited Talk, Emmanuel Faith Community Church, Escondido, California. Presented on Singleness and the Church. May 2022.
    • Table Talk, 51蹤獲, La Mirada, California. Presented on What is a University For? April 2021.

      Books

      Areas of Expertise for Media Interviews

      • Church
      • Doctrine
      • Faith
      • Salvation
      • Sin
      • Theology
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