As a means of holding together a similar constellation of concerns, Rowan Williams suggests the language of “celebratory,” “communicative,” and “critical” to speak of three necessarily interacting “styles” and interwoven responsibilities in Christian theology: while theology rightly begins in celebratory rootedness in the particularities of Christian faith, if it is not to risk becoming “sealed in on itself” it needs both to engage in “fruitful,” potentially mutually enlightening “conversation” with the “rhetoric of its uncommitted environment” and to pursue with rigor critical questions
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