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What Michalson (as well as others!) completely overlooks is that, in my view, credibility, although, a necessary condition of the adequacy of witness and theology, cannot be a sufficient condition  --  because condition—because unless and until a witness or a theology is first determined to be appropriate, there is no point in even asking whether it is also credible. This, if you will is the "Barthian," really, "Bultmannian," moment in my way of thinking that sets it sharply over against many other so-called liberal or mediating thinkers, such as Kaufman, Ruether, Pailin, or Elisabeth Schußler Fiorenza.

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