Dr Ben Fulford is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Chester University. He is the author of Divine Eloquence and Human Transformation

• Acknowledgements viiIntroduction 1Part I: Christology, Providence and Politics1 Yale, Civil Rights in New Haven 152 The Presence of Christ in Post-liberal Theology 453 Jesus Christ, Providence and Political Hope 80Part II: Towards a Generous Orthodoxy4 The Figural Imagination and the Ethics of Responsibility 1375 A Generous Orthodoxy: The Literal Sense and Christian Liberal Humanism after Christendom 1826 God’s Patience and the Work of Reconciliation 237Bibliography 293Index 305

"Hans Frei is in my judgement the twentieth-century American Christian theologian who is most important for the twenty-first century. Fulford not only brilliantly demonstrates Frei’s depth, relevance and potential; he also shows himself to be a wise and creative thinker, able to develop further Frei’s key themes, especially in ethics and politics. This opens up an inspiring, intelligent, and practically-oriented way to be wisely Christian today."