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The reason that witness cannot be borne without anticipating that theology is to be done is that bearing witness gives an answer to the existential question, thereby making or implying the claims to be adequate to the content of witness as well as fitting to its situation. In thus making or implying these claims, however, bearing witness promises in effect to validate them critically insofar as they need to be thus validated; and theologyis theology is the form of critical reflection constituted to validate them.

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