Page History

At an earlier stage in my thinking about "(doing) theology," I distingished it from "(bearing) witness" in general as "conceptual." Thus I could say that theology's "proper task" is "to bear witness in the most adequate conceptual form now possible to the reality of God \[that\] is re-presented to us all in Jesus Christ" (_The Reality of God_: 70; cf. also 66, where I could use the phrase, "an appropriate theological witness"; and 68 f., where I could say that "with the resources provided by the new theism and, more generally, by a neoclassical metaphysics, ... it should prove possible to bear witness not only through preaching and worship, but through theological formulations as well, to the peculiar paradox of Protestant Christianity").