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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...

is and none other. The imagination is the cement by which, in ordinary experience of absent human beings, the separable elements of identity and presence become joined effectively for our own imagined representation of these persons. But in all such cases, unlike that of Jesus Christ, the imagination, or the person doing the imagining, is not forced into uniting the content of imagination with the grasp of actual presence. Here, then, the similarity between ordinary apprehension and the apprehension
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