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In his foreword, Mike Higton describes Hans W. Frei’s Identity of Jesus Christ as “a book about Jesus of Nazareth. It is not a book about ‘story,’ nor about ‘narrative theology.’ … Rather, this is a book about the way in which Jesus of Nazareth’s identity is rendered by the Gospels—largely the Synoptic Gospels, particularly the Gospel of Luke, and especially in the passion and resurrection...

as well as a clarification of the ideas or concepts implied by it and a proper ordering of their parts. But we must further consider what place there is for rational reflection within this personal relation to Christ. Sometimes we feel that reflection is extrinsic to or foreign to that relation, perhaps even harmful to it; at other times we may feel that it is an intrinsic part and expression of that relation—as if there were a presence of Jesus Christ in our thinking and not only in our prayers
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