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On my analysis (following W.A. Christian), religious faith, properly so-called, rests on (1) the basic supposition that life is somehow ultimately meaningful together with the basic question and open commitment that this supposition makes possible; and (2) some suggestion for answering this question together with a basic proposal answering it. It lies in the nature of the case that, so far as religious faith is concerned, it affirms all of this and questions none of it, although any theology of the religious faith, in the proper sense of critical reflection on its distinctive validity claims, allows for, and may involve, questioning all of it.

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