In other words, Frei praised in his teachers and colleagues that generous orthodoxy which is unafraid of dogma yet sees Christianity as an hospitable and ‘open-ended’ stream; which is bold in its realism about God’s involvement in history and yet realistic about the finitude and frailty of history, and therefore about its own finitude and frailty; which finds itself drawn by concentration upon Jesus of Nazareth into patient, reconciling work in the world, including political work, and yet pursues