immediately evident from his published work) he can be talking about providence and pilgrimage. It is hard now to gauge exactly what shape the final project would have taken in which all this rich material would have been combined, but it is clear that Frei wished to pursue theological reflection through the medium of detailed historical work, and wished to hone a full-blown Christology of his own – a Christology which would have had a significant political dimension – by paying detailed attention to the ways in which Jesus had been described and redescribed in Western Protestant culture since the Enlightenment. Death The potential project of a comprehensive Christology was, however, never completed. Before he could deliver a paper he had written for a conference on H. Richard Niebuhr, he fell ill, and the paper was given in his absence. Frei died of a stroke on September 12, 1988, at the peak of his theological and historical career. Key writings The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics, (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1974) The Identity of Jesus Christ: The Hermeneutical Bases of Dogmatic Theology, (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975) The Identity of Jesus Christ, Expanded and Updated Edition, (Cascade Books: An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2013) 'The "Literal Reading" of Biblical Narrative in the Christian Tradition: Does it Stretch or Will it Break?', in Frank McConnell, The Bible and the Narrative Tradition, (New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) Types of Christian Theology, (1992) Theology and narrative:Selected Essays, (1993) References Further reading Charles Campbell, Preaching Jesus: New Directions for Homiletics in Hans Frei's Postliberal Theology, (Grand Rapids & Cambridge Wm Β Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997) John David Dawson, Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity, (London: University of California Press, 2002) David F Ford, 'Hans Frei and the Future of Theology', Modern Theology 8:2, (April 1992) Garrett Green, ed, Scriptural Authority and Narrative Interpretation, (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987) (a Festscrift produced for Frei on his 65th birthday) Mike Higton, Christ, Providence, and History: Hans W. Frei's Public Theology, (New York: T&T Clark International, 2004) George Hunsinger, 'Hans Frei as Theologian: The Quest for a Generous Orthodoxy', Modern Theology 8:2, (April 1992) Jason A. Springs, Toward a Generous Orthodoxy: Prospects for Hans Frei's Postliberal Theology, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) John F Woolverton, 'Hans W Frei in Context: A Theological