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Taken altogether, Frei's typology and his interpretations of theologies in terms of it seem to me to raise the question of whether a Type 3 theology in this sense is really possible. If his own Type 4 theology is valid, such a Type 3 theology can only too easily appear impossible or, at best, unstable, demanding to be resolved into either a Type 4 theology or, as has proved more likely in the modern period, a Type 2 theology. If, on the other hand, such a Type 3 theology is, as I believe, a real possibility, then Barthianism of all sorts, including Frei's own, is likely to seem as questionable a theological project as the kind of "mediating theology" that it has typically mistaken to be the only other real alternative (pp. 88 ff., 156 f.).

Professor Schubert M. Ogden
Perkins School of Theology
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275 USA