Starting on Jenson.

“The gospel tells about Jesus as the future, and in doing so impresses him on the hearers as a future for which they may live, calls up and evokes the coming Lord as the Lord of their present. Therefore, the gospel can never be only statements about Jesus; the gospel depends on the creative, future-evoking power of language. Of course, our ordinary language — whether of words, gestures, purely didactic pictures, or whatever — is itself more than descriptive, and will, therefore, often suffice for the telling of the gospel. But the church seeks to intensify the future-pointing power of its talk about Jesus; as a result, the church finds itself singing, rhyming, depicting, dancing, and playing his story.”

-Robert Jenson, “Language and Time.” Essays in Theology of Culture. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995. (4)

Essays in Theology of Culture is my first attempt to get into Robert Jenson's work. So far I'm finding a lot to like.