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I have generally resisted Bultmann's distinction between what is a matter of authority, on the one hand, and what is a properly "scientific" matter, subject to discussion, on the other. But perhaps there is a point to this distinction that I have failed to appreciate.

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But one may grant all this, so far as I can see, even while inisisting insisting that, whether or not theology is a "science," it is, in its own way, a matter of critical reflection, subject to discussion -- and that not only with respect to the appropriateness of its claims and the claims of Christian witness, but also with respect to the credibility of the same claims.

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