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Among the other consequences of recognizing this is that one can see more than one sense in which "faith seeking understanding" is an appropriate characterization of Christian theology (notwithstanding the sense in which it is clearly inappropriate). Not only is it the case that the Christian witness of faith can become the object of theological reflection only insofar as it indirectly becomes the subject of such reflection as well (cf. OT: 2); it is also the case that it is indeed faith which is seeking understanding through theological reflection, even though the faith in question is not -- and cannot be -- specifically Christian faith, but is, rather, religious faith, or, at the least, the existential faith without which we neither would nor could exist as the kind of faithing and understanding beings that we in fact are.

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