Ben Fulford

Dedication

Title page

Copyright information

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Christology, Providence and Politics

1. Yale, Civil Rights in New Haven

2. The Presence of Christ in Post-liberal Theology

3. Jesus Christ, Providence and Political Hope

Part II: Towards a Generous Orthodoxy

4. The Figural Imagination and the Ethics of Responsibility

5. A Generous Orthodoxy: The Literal Sense and Christian Liberal Humanism after Christendom

6. God’s Patience and the Work of Reconciliation

Bibliography

In God’s Patience and our Work Ben Fulford argues that Hans Frei’s theology and ethics offers unheralded but valuable resources for thinking about the social and political engagement of Christian communities in pluralistic societies in light of hope in Jesus Christ. He shows how Frei’s project of recovering the conditions for and shape of a generous orthodoxy runs through his work, offering broad, flexible vision of Christian identity, ethical responsibility and humanistic witness, focused in the person and presence of Jesus Christ. In dialogue with liberation theologies, Fulford draws from Frei an account of divine patience and providence to frame hopeful, pragmatic Christian participation in work for dignity, justice and penultimate reconciliation, rooted in new and deeper contextual reading of his work.

"God's being gives meaning to God's action". So said Gustavo Gutiérrez. If we grasp what it means to say that God is just, we learn what justice really looks like. If we understand how divine anger works, we understand how we can be fruitfully angry. Understanding who God is, is not an 'ivory tower' activity, but one which helps us to better grasp of both Christian worship and Christian action. An accessible introduction to the doctrine of God, Only God Will Save Us demonstrates for students, ordinands and Christian practitioners how a theological articulation of the nature of God can drive and refine Christian action in the world.

\- An important reassessment of one of the 20th century's most prominent theologians - The author is a prominent figure in UK theology, at one of the country's most lively and innovative theology departments - Considers Hans Frei's contribution to, and coining of, 'generous orthodoxy' - an outlook rapidly gaining in popularity as a way of holding together disparate views across the church in a time of increasing fragmentation

American biblical scholar and theologian Hans Frei is most famed as the father of 'generous orthodoxy', a minimalist approach to Christian faith which refused to hold tightly to matters of doctrine beyond the core Christian beliefs. Beyond this, though, on the basis of his Christology, ecclesiology and his account of providence Frei sketched a hopeful realistic ethics of reconciliation that offers a distinctive and significant contribution to Christian social ethics and political theology. In his reassessment of a man who might conceivably be considered one of the most influential figures in modern Anglophone theology, Ben Fulford shines a spotlight on Frei's ethics and political thought. Bringing Frei's thinking into conversation with other key contemporary theologians such as Reinhold Niebuhr, James Cone, Juan Luis Segundo, Beverley Harrison and Stanley Hauerwas, Fulford demonstrates that Frei's thinking remains deeply pertinent to the challenges facing Christian theologians today.

An accessible introduction to the doctrine of God, 'Only God Will Save Us' demonstrates for students, ordinands and Christian practitioners how a theological articulation of the nature of God can drive and refine Christian action in the world.

God’s Patience and our Work

Navigation Bar

Header Default

Download the Christian360 App to read eBooks and listen to Audiobooks bought at Christian360

God’s Patience and our Work

Description

Need support?

Customer reviews

Download the App

Download the App