By Schubert Ogden
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In what sense, exactly, is doing theology a form of "fully critical reflection"?
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This means, among other things, that doing theology as a form of "fully critical reflection" always involves beginning again ab ovo, or-- to or—to change the metaphor from Barth's to Maurice's -- it s—it involves digging down beneath all mere authorities to the primal sources of authority, i.e., the implicit primal source in common human experience and understanding of ultimate reality in its meaning for us; and the explicit primal source in specifically Christian experience and understanding of Jesus as of decisive significance for human existence.
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