Eugene F. Rogers Jr

Christian Doctrine and the Grammar of Difference

Theology

“In the best medieval tradition, creation becomes a source of diversity rather than uniformity. This book dissolves several problems with elegance.”

God and Creation in Christian Theology

Theology

“Before I read God and Creation, I thought Christians had to choose between grace and free will. If they chose grace, so much the better. As I read, I found myself moved. Grace and free will were not rivals but companions. The shock made me stop reading and shiver.... The book enjoys an austere beauty, a rational elegance, and a charity toward other theologians that deserves to be more imitated. In an undergraduate class of 120, I use it every year.”

The Incarnation as God's First Intention

Theology

“Christian doctrines seek to go on talking about God as the Bible does to answer the questions it raises. The most famous of those may be, Would Jesus have come if we hadn’t sinned? Implied in this are the most intimate questions about what God must desire, if the biblical stories hang together. Theologians like Van Driel make careful distinctions and seem to know more about God than is quite decent. The best book about election I know of, after Wyschogrod and Barth.”