By Schubert Ogden
I have argued that, "in the theological context, as in others, appropriation, or reflection . . . , can occur on different levels. To appropriate, or reflect, on either level is to make judgments using certain criteria. But whereas, on the first, less critical level, the criteria are simply the consuetudinary criteria established in the particular context of reflection, on the second, more critical level, they are the ultimate criteria of experience and reason as these require to be used in that particular context" ("Existentialist Theology").
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