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The same holds good of systematic theology's using or following the philosophical method in its third, philosophical phase or aspect. As I have put it elsewhere, "even in taking account of all that humans beings think and say, secular as well as religious, [Christian theology] does so only in pursuit of its own constitutive task of determining the meaning and truth of specifically Christian thinking and speaking about God" (OT: 128). In other words, systematic theology uses or follows the philosophical method to carry out its distinctive task of criticaly critically validating the claim of witness to be adequate to its content and, specifically, to be credible to human existence as we all experience it.

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