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It lies in the nature of the case that there are two, and only two, conditions under which an instance of Christian witness can be appropriate: either it itself is (or belongs to) the constitutive and therefore formally normative instance(s) of Christian witness by which the appropriateness of all other instances has to be determined; or else it is one of these other instances that so agrees in substance with the formally normative instance(s) that it, too, is appropriate and therefore substantially normative for determining the appropriateness of some other such instance(s). Consequently, to determine that an instance of Christian witness is appropriate is to determine that one or the other of these two conditions is satisfied. But to determine that either condition is satisfied requires rightly understanding, and so interpreting and reformulating, the constitutive and therefore formally normative instance(s) of Christian witness.

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