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Article: Professing the Faith: Christian Theology in a North American Context.
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- Theological Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 1995
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This is the second volume of a three-volume study; the first was entitled Thinking the Faith. Hall explains that "professing the faith" adds commitment to understanding. That commitment has three qualities: fidelity to the Christian tradition which always exceeds any attempt to explain or interpret it, commitment to Jesus Christ which despite its particularity nevertheless has a universal inclusiveness, and commitment to the way of discipleship as the context for theological thinking.
In constructing a committed theology, Hall advances in three methodological steps. The first step, historical theology, retrieves the Christian tradition. The second, critical theology, ...