By Schubert Ogden
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There is a sense in which the first, historical phase of systematic theology is related to its second, hermeneutical phase analogously to the same circular way in which, in Marxsen's view, "introduction" (= die Einleitungswissenschaft) is related to "exegesis" (= die Exegese).
1 June 1990; rev. 12 December 2004