Christ, Providence and History

by Michael Higton

Overview

This book is the first full study of the whole of Hans Frei's work. Higton draws on a wide range of unpublished material in the Frei archives to present a comprehensive, fresh, and original interpretation of Frei's theology.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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567080523
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/12/2004
Edition description:	ANN
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Dr. Michael Higton is Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter, England.

Editorial Reviews

."..a model of how theological scholarship ought to be done. And even if we do not like his answers, Frei is raising precisely the sort of questions evangelicals ought to reflect upon as often as possible." Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology

"Higton does the scholarly community (and one might hope the theologically interested general reading public) a great service by providing the best overall introduction to Frei's early work. Higton, in very lucid and engaging prose and with great sensitivity to the written record, convincingly demonstrates the coherence and enormous significance of Frei's project as both a historian and a theologian." - Anglican Theological Review

"Higton treats his subject with immense care and sympathy, and perhaps this is how it should be in the first comprehensive study of Frei's work." - Theology

"Higton's book ... is by far the best there is, and it is to be commended to anyone concerned with the challenges facing Christian theology in recent centuries and today." - Theologische Literaturzeitung

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, while celebrating its concrete contingency and freedom. SirReadaLot.org, 12/8/04

An ambitious theological analysis of one of the most significant and seminal of 20th-century theologians. Through Higton s capacity to focus on what is most significant at each point, he brings the reader to grapple with the debate and a constructive possibility for resolving it. The book is lucidly and accessibly written, and should appeal to those seriously engaged with theological issues. Altogether, it constitutes a major contribution. Rev. Professor Daniel W. Hardy

In this well-written critical study, Higton establishes that Frei s larger project was a Christian theology that takes God s relation to history and to persons in their concrete historical circumstances with such seriousness that it creates conceptual space for a genuinely publish theology. Higton s skilful reconstruction sketches his bold and fascinating theological vision. Enjoyably written, exemplary research. Professor David H. Kelsey, Yale Divinity School

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