By Schubert Ogden
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Thus, while I have always maintained that theology has to ask about the credibility of Christian witness as well as about its appropriateness, I have never failed to insist, in one way or another, that theology can responsibly answer this question only by treating not only the Christian claim to credibility, but all such claims as exactly that -- – claims, whose validity requires to be critically validated. In this way, or to this extent, I have done all that anyone can be reasonably expected to do to allow Christian witness to judge us instead of our simply judging it.
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