By Schubert Ogden
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To be sure, mainstream Christian theologies have typically allowed that the credibility of the necessary presuppositions of witness can be, in one way or another, critically validated. But aside from the fact that critically validating their credibility has usually been regarded as a pretheological task, instead of as a task of theology proper, the credibility of witness itself, as distinct from its necessary presuppositions, has been excluded from the scope of theological reflection.
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