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