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Doing theology critically and retrospectively is determining whether what religious believers of some kind have in fact believed and done is what they by right ought to have believed and done -- namelydone—namely, because it was both adequate to its content and fitting to its situation.

Doing theology constructively and prospectively is determining what religious believers of some kind by right ought to believe and do, whether or not they have in fact been believing and doing it -- -namely—namely, because it is both adequate to its content and fitting to its situation.

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