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But the terms "theology" and "Christian theology" are both commonly used -- in fact, more commonly used -- also in a strict sense, to refer, in the case of "Christian theology," not to everything that Christians think and! / or say or do about God, but to only some of it -- specifically, to such of it as is employed in more or less critically appropriating, or critically reflecting on, all the rest of it, this remainder being distinguished by some other term such as "Christian witness." So "doing Christian theology," in this strict sense, may be defined as the praxis of more or less critically interpreting the meaning of Christian witness or, more exactly, the praxis of bearing Christian witness -- and then of more or less critically validating the claims to validity that bearing witness necessarily makes or implies just as and because it is bearing witness.

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