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I doubt that there is something called ‘The Answer’ … the only thing we can do is to answer.

I am increasingly unimpressed with what people call ‘orthodox’ Christianity. It has become a kind of religious straitjacket into which all Christians must be bound or face expulsion from the faith community by those who think of themselves as the true believers. To be called an orthodox Christian does not mean that one’s point of view is right. It only means that this point of view won out in the ancient debate.

Rationality is the capacity to make problematic what had hitherto been treated as given; to bring to reflection what before had only been used; to transform resource into topic; to examine critically the life we lead. This view of rationality situates it in the capacity to think about our thinking. Rationality as reflexivity about our groundings premises an ability to speak about our speech and the factors that ground it. Rationality is thus located in metacommunication.

…What distinguishes the members of this genre [theory] is their ability to function not as demonstrations within the parameters of a discipline but as re-descriptions that challenge disciplinary boundaries.