I posit that there are midnight moments when confessional theologians toss and turn with the haunting thought that what they call a gift of grace is in fact an accident of birth—that, had they been born in another time and place, they would have entirely different things inside their heads than the things they defend in their daytime theologies. That radical confession is what I mean by confessional theologians becoming circum-fessional, in which the accent switches from confessio as professing a creed to confessio as confessing how deeply exposed to events we are.
