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                                                                                               GRC-50: Introduction to Theology

                                                                                                   Summary of the Lectures

                                                                                               Theology as a Christian Vocation

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3. Theology in this sense is like any other form of critical reflection in being constituted by its questions -- specifically, by its two questions as to the appropriateness and the credibility of the claims expressed or implied by Christian praxis or witness. Because these same questions suffice to establish the logical type of theological reflection, they also determine its tasks, to ask and answer both its constitutive and its constituted questions; its methods, which must be appropriate to carrying out these several tasks; its criteria, which are the same as the criteria of all other forms of critical reflection of the same logical type; its contexts, which are the contexts of self-understanding and praxis as well as of reflection and of human existence generally as well as of Christian existence in particular; and its disciplines, which are the three disciplines of systematic, historical, and practical theology, constituted respectively by the constitutive and the constituted questions of theology as such.

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