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Philosophy and theology are alike in that they are both proximately oriented, not by an intellectual question, but by an existential question—and the same existential question at that, i.e., the existential question about the ultimate meaning of human existence. And this is so even though they are both constituted as such, as distinct from being oriented, not by any vital question, existential or intellectual, but by certain theoretical questions: philosophy, by questions about the real meaning and validity of religion and culture generally; theology, by questions about the real meaning and validity of specifically Christian religion and culture, which is to say, Christian witness, explicit and also implicit.

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