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In terms that I now incline to use, I could say that systematic theology and moral theology significantly overlap in their common concern for Christian self-understanding (i.e., = faith), while they differ insofar as they each also have to do with a distinct, albeit inseparable, aspect of Christian life-praxis (i.e., =witness), systematic theology having to do with the belief aspect of life-praxis, moral theology, with its action aspect.

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It is an interesting question in this connection whether the analysis of faith as necessarily having the two aspects of trust and of loyalty, and hence of hope and of love, casts any light on the difference between systematic theology and moral theology. Could one say, for example, that even in their common concern with faith (i.e., = Christian self-understanding) systematic theology and moral theology are already different, in that the first is concerned with faith in its first relatively passive aspect of trust or confidence, and hence of hope, while the second is concerned with faith in its second relatively active aspect of loyalty or fidelity, and hence of love?

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