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1. The general rule for understanding the tasks and methods of Christian theology is that tasks determine methods, even as tasks are determined by questions.

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8. On the other hand, any question constituted by another nontheological or secular field may also be a proper question of Christian theology, and the same is true of the tasks determined by the question and of the methods determined by the tasks.2

9. But no question constituted by another nontheological or secular field, or constitutive of any of its disciplines, specialties, subspecialties, subsubspecialties, etc. may also be a proper question of Christian theology unless it is either constitutive of Christian theology as a field or is constituted by its constitutive question and, therefore, is constitutive of one of its own disciplines, specialties, subspecialties, subsubspecialties, etc.; and the same is true of the tasks determined by the question and of the methods determined by the tasks.

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