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It is careless and forced to say, as I have said too often, that, even as Christian witness claims to be appropriate to Jesus Christ as attested by normative Christian witness, so it also claims to be credible to human existence as attested by common human experience and reason. The evident proper counterpart term to "common human experience and reason" is not "normative Christian witness," but rather "specifically Christian experience and reason" -- just —just as the evident proper counterpart term to "Jesus Christ as attested by normative Christian witness" is not "human existence as attested by common human experience and reason," but rather "human existence as attested by "the 'right' philosophy" (i.e., the philosophy that correctly explicates what is disclosed about human existence by common human experience and reason).

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So it is that two of the three basic problems of Christian systematic theology are the criteriological problems of determining what is to count both in
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principle and in fact as "normative Christian witness" and "the 'right' philosophy" respectively.

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