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On the question of whether Frei tacitly assumes (or fails adequately to distinguish what he does assume from) a constitutivist type of christology, what he says – -- in discussing Tracy and Bultmann -- about "the 'scandal of particularity'" meaning that "salvation here and now [is] dependent on one person then and there" (62) is a pretty clear indication, or confirmation; , of an affirmative answer. On my representativist type of christology, by contrast; what is dependent here and now on one person then and there is not "salvation," but Christian existence, or the specifically Christian way of actualizing salvation, which, unlike salvation itself, is constituted by the one "real" or "historical" person Jesus, to whom Christian existence in all its aspects is simply the response.

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