By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
What makes me a Christian?
What makes me a Christian--expressed purely formally-is a certain kind ofselfunderstanding 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 ofthe rest ofmy life as a human being accordingly-in accordance with my self-understanding and the beliefs and actions that it necessarily presupposes and implies.
What makes me a university teacher?
What makes me a university teacher-again, expressed purely formally-is a certain kind ofself-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.