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                                                                                                 Bearing Witness as a Form of Christian Life-Praxis

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3. There is good reason, then, for speaking of bearing witness not simply as Christian life-praxis, but as one main form thereof – -- the other main form being making effective use of the witness borne by others.

4. As for theology, it is as necessary – -- for essentially the same reasons – -- to making effective use of the witness borne by others as it is to bearing valid witness oneself. (This would seem to argue for a definition of Christian theology as not simply critical reflection upon Christian witness, but rather critical theory of Christian life-praxis, in the sense of the life-praxis mediated by the Christian religion, which includes not only bearing valid witness but also making effective use of the witness borne by others.)

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