Hans Frei and the Orthodox Generosity of Jesus

Abstract

That phrase, generous orthodoxy, comes from a theologian named Hans Frei. It‘s an oxymoron, of course. To be orthodox is to be committed to a tradition. To be generous, as Frei defines it, is to be open to change. But Frei thought the best way to live our lives was to find the middle ground because orthodoxy without generosity leads to blindness and generosity without orthodoxy is shallow and empty.