By Schubert Ogden
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If this accounts for their difference, however, it is clear that they are not, and cannot be, sharply different. Not only is self-understanding as inseparable from belief as it is from action, but belief and action themselves are also inseparable and mututally mutually require one another. Therefore, to explicate Christian self-understanding and Christian life-praxis insofar as it is belief, as systematic theology has the task of doing, cannot possibly avoid also explicating to some extent Christian life-praxis insofar as it is action. And so, too, the other way around: moral theology can accomplish its task of explicating Christian self-understanding and Christian life-praxis insofar as it
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is action only by also explicating to some extent Christian life-praxis insofar as it is belief.
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