Jenkins expounds his exemplary theologians with proper seriousness in a masterly exposition backed by an immense range of reference and scholarly detail. What emerges without intrusive emphasis is the way governing ideas control our take on the text, and the way they can achieve life after death in theologies claiming contemporary relevance. There is a brilliant choice of texts to illustrate the pressure of a selective hermeneutic: the "I AM THAT I AM" of Exodus 3: 14, the encounters of Jesus with his mother, the cries of agony in the garden and of dereliction on the cross.

Jenkins expounds his exemplary theologians with proper seriousness in a masterly exposition backed by an immense range of reference and scholarly detail. What emerges without intrusive emphasis is the way governing ideas control our take on the text, and the way they can achieve life after death in theologies claiming contemporary relevance. There is a brilliant choice of texts to illustrate the pressure of a selective hermeneutic: the "I AM THAT I AM" of Exodus 3: 14, the encounters of Jesus with his mother, the cries of agony in the garden and of dereliction on the cross.

Jenkins expounds his exemplary theologians with proper seriousness in a masterly exposition backed by an immense range of reference and scholarly detail. What emerges without intrusive emphasis is the way governing ideas control our take on the text, and the way they can achieve life after death in theologies claiming contemporary relevance. There is a brilliant choice of texts to illustrate the pressure of a selective hermeneutic: the "I AM THAT I AM" of Exodus 3: 14, the encounters of Jesus with his mother, the cries of agony in the garden and of dereliction on the cross.