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Wiki MarkupI have reasoned for a long time in some such way as follows:

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"\[T\]he existential question orienting theology, although a single question about the meaning of our existence, nonetheless has two distinguishable aspects, moral as well as metaphysical, whereby it is logically related to the other questions proper to both morals and metaphysics. Thus any answer to the existential question, including that explicitly mediated by the Christian religion, at least implicitly answers both of these other questions. This explains why the indirect form of Christian witness properly distinguished as 'Christian teaching,' in which the implied answers to these other questions are more or less fully explicated, typically includes both properly metaphysical teaching about things that are to be believed (_credenda_) and properly moral teaching about things that are to be done (_agenda_). But, then, theology, at its level, must be as concerned with critically interpreting and critically validating both of these kinds of Christian teaching as it is with critically reflecting on the direct form of Christian witness that is properly distinguished as 'Christian proclamation'" ("Paul in Contemporary Theology and Ethics": 295).

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"How is the Christian understanding of God as triune properly interpreted?

"The Christian understanding of God as triune, i.e., as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is properly interpreted as an existential, and so a religious, theological, or
philosophical, kind of understanding, as distinct from a metaphysical kind. This means that it has entirely to do with the meaning of God for us, as distinct from the structure of God in itself. This is as true, indeed, of the so-called immanent, or 'ontological,' trinity as it is of the so-called economic trinity" (Notebooks, 18 May 1999).

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