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Christ, Providence and History (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Christ, Providence and History (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Hans Frei was born in Germany in 1922 and moved to the USA with his
family during World War II. After studying under Niebuhr at Yale
University he took up a teaching post there. In the 1960's he went
to Europe undertaking research in both Gottingen and Cambridge. He
died in 1988 at the peak of his career. This book is the first full
study of the whole of Hans Frei's work, from his doctoral thesis on
Karl Barth in the 1950's to his great unfinished project on the
history of modern theology in the 1980's. Higton draws on a wide
range of unpublished material in the Frei archives to present a
comprehensive, fresh and original interpretation of Frei's
theology. He places Frei's well-known work on biblical hemeneutics
firmly in the context of his theological wrestling with Barth and
of the dominant traditions of Western Protestant theology. Here is
an unprecedented portrait of Frei as a theologian fundamentally
concerned with the ability of theology to speak about, and to, the
public world - and to regard that world as providentially ordered
in Jesus Christ, without diminishing its concrete contingency and
freedom. Frei emerges not just a powerful historian of theology,
but a persuasive,
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