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I find it interesting -- and significant -- that the concept term "critical appropriation" was already prominent in my thinking/speaking in my essay, '"Toward a New Theism" (1966). The very first sentence of this essay reads: "If anything is clear, it is that no religious tradition can long continue to be a vital source of faith and life unless it is critically appropriated in each new historical situation" (Theology in Crisis: A Colloquium on the Credibility of "God": 3).

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