Jenson and musical endings
Jenson's ending to Systematic Theology Vol. 1:
The apprehension of God as beauty...in which we said that God is an event, a person, a decision, and a conversation. The phrase "the one God" directs us finally to the sheer perichoresis of Father, Son, and Spirit, and that is to their communal music. We close this doctrine of God with this evocation of God's being, beyond which there is no more to say: God is a great fugue. There is nothing so capacious as a fugue.
Ending to Vol. 2:
The point of identity, infinitely approachable and infinitely to be approached, the enlivening of telos of the Kingdom's own life, is perfect harmony between the conversation of the redeemed and the conversation that God is. In the conversation God is, meaning and melody are one.
The end is music.
The apprehension of God as beauty...in which we said that God is an event, a person, a decision, and a conversation. The phrase "the one God" directs us finally to the sheer perichoresis of Father, Son, and Spirit, and that is to their communal music. We close this doctrine of God with this evocation of God's being, beyond which there is no more to say: God is a great fugue. There is nothing so capacious as a fugue.
Ending to Vol. 2:
The point of identity, infinitely approachable and infinitely to be approached, the enlivening of telos of the Kingdom's own life, is perfect harmony between the conversation of the redeemed and the conversation that God is. In the conversation God is, meaning and melody are one.
The end is music.
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