Christ, Providence and History

Higton draws on unpublished material in the Frei archives to present an original interpretation of Frei's theology. He places Frei's well-known work on biblical hermeneutics firmly in the context of his theological wrestling with Barth and of the dominant traditions of Western Protestant theology. He portrays 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 as not just a powerful historian of theology, but also as a persuasive, and hitherto largely unrecognized, theologian of history.