The Barthian heritage of Hans W. Frei

Hans Frei and the ‘Yale School’ of narrative theology are often understood to be Barthian in orientation, but only rarely have the origins and contours of Frei's engagement with Barth been treated in the secondary literature. Frei's dissertation itself remains unpublished, with the excepti...

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Main Author: Knight, John Allan (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2008
In: Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2008, Volume: 61, Issue: 3, Pages: 307-326
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