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disciplines, including itself. On the other hand, specialists in systematic theologyare theology are responsible, at least according to aptitude, for asking and answering all relevant questions about the constitution of theology as a field and of any of the several disciplines that it in turn may require or allow for.

For some time now, the disciplined pursuit of such questions has beendesignated been designated by the term "prolegomena," which is appropriate enough, provided one construes it with Karl Barth to mean, not the things that are said before one does theology, but rather the things that are said first, as soon as one begins to do it. In any case, questions about the task{s) and method(s) of theology and of all its disciplines are among the perennial questions that systematic theologians as suchbear such bear disciplinary responsibility for asking and trying to answer.

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