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Jason Springs' Toward a Generous Orthodoxy is quite simply the best available account of Hans Frei's work. But this book is more than just an account of Frei; it makes a constructive contribution to theology that is truly remarkable. I am particularly struck by his observation that Wittgenstein helps us see why we should never abandon the presumption that theological language helps us understand the way things are. This is really a terrific book. --Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke University Hans Frei's hard sayings about the Bible, theology, and the church won him a major following. His critics reject those sayings as obviously false. Jason Springs has done something quite different and original. He has recast Frei's central claims in a way that frees them from paradox. This book will require theologians to rethink the options they have been debating for the last thirty years. --Jeffrey Stout, author of Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America Springs' careful and intelligent account . . . succeeds in its major ambition: it demonstrates how it is that Frei's work as a whole does indeed cohere, whatever shifts of emphasis and approach might have shaped it. The cultural-linguistic Frei and the Frei of the Gospels' realistic objectivity are one and the same. --Mike Higton, Pro Ecclesia This is the most important commentary on Frei's theology, among numerous article-length and several book-length treatments, produced to date. --Michael Raposa, Heythrop Journal

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Jason Springs studied theology, ethics, and philosophy at Princeton Seminary and Harvard University. He held a post-doctoral fellowship in Christian Thought and Practice at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion and is now Associate Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

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