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I find it interesting that, already in "Faith and Truth" (1965), I was employing the concept "anticipation" in my efforts to clarify the two tasks of theology.

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Of course, I would still want to allow that the theologian also anticipates insofar as properly theological statements themselves are subject to the same criteria of validity—of adequacy and fittingness, appropriateness and credibility—as apply to the statements made or implied in bearing witness. In this case, however, what is anticipated is not on the different level of critical reflection and proper theory, as distinct from self-understanding and life-praxis, but on the same leveLlevel.

19 November 1996