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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...

spirit, and ascended. Reaching the summit of Golgotha, he mounted the Cross.”4 But it is of the essence of the novel that this is not yet the end. Now follows the last temptation, which lends the book its title. There is a theory about salvation in Christ held by Protestant scholastic theologians of the seventeenth century, who followed the gospel story closely—a theory that reaches back at least to St. Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo? It says that Christ gained infinite merit for our salvation in two ways:
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