" Systematic or dogmatic theology has been slow to learn the lesson of contextuality, especially its place-component, and one cannot avoid the conclusion that a ( if not the ) predominant reason for this lies in the character of the enterprise as such. The very adjectives systematic and dogmatic .. betray a predilection to permanency. It so easily happens that a ( right and good ) desire to "see the thing whole", to integrate, to describe connections, to honor the unity of truth, and so on becomes, in its execution, an exercise in finality.
.. the thing that prevents the theological answer from assuming the status of the absolute is the human question, which is never silenced, and the situation, which keeps changing. ( p45 )
" .. entering into the specificity of one's own time and place is the conditio sine qua non of real theological work. Without that participatory act and identity, theology invariably lapses into mere doctrine. The world that the disciples of the crucified one are obliged to take seriously is first of all that world that is their own. " ( p47 )
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