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What, properly, is theological methodology?

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Prolegomena, in my understanding, is theological reflection on doing theology itself, which always involves asking and answering two main questions: (1) what is it to do theology? (what does it mean to do it? what is there to do?); and (2) how ought theology to be done? (how is it to be done?). By "theological methodology," then, I understand a developed and reasoned answer to the second question -- to question—to the "how" question, and, in that sense, the question of method, as distinct from the first "what" question.

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