By Schubert Ogden
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What makes me a Christian – -- expressed purely formally – -- is a certain kind of self-understanding and life-praxis: that I understand myself, others, and the whole as I am called to do by the call to be a Christian; and that I then explicitly believe and actually do what is necessarily presupposed and implied by my self-understanding (as well as the call to be a Christian) and lead all of the rest of my life as a human being accordingly – -- in accordance with my self-understanding and the beliefs and actions that it necessarily presupposes and implies.
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What makes me a university teacher – -- again, expressed purely formally – -- is a certain kind of self-understanding and life-praxis: that I understand myself, others, and the whole as I am called to do by the call to be a university teacher; and that I then explicitly believe and actually do what is necessarily presupposed and implied by my self-understanding (as well as the call to be a university teacher) and lead all of the rest of my life as a university teacher accordingly – -- in accordance with my self-understanding and the beliefs and actions that it necessarily presupposes and implies.