By Schubert Ogden
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But, then, if faith transcends objectifying thinking – -- period, it transcends the thinking of science in both senses of the term. This means that the relation of believers to the objectifying thinking of philosophy and theology is just as paradoxical – -- just as much a matter of "as if not" (ως μη) – -- as it is to the world and to the world picture of modern natural science (cf. 123). In other words, if one is a Christian, one must do theology as wen as philosophy in the same way in which one is to do everything else: as if one were not doing it.
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