Secondly, Pannenberg is acutely aware of the critique against modern theology leveled by dialectical theologians such as Karl Barth and others that the proper object of theology is God and that any theology that begins from a reflection on human religious experience can only produce an image of God that is an idol. While Pannenberg accepts Barth’s insight that the only proper object of theology is God and his revelation in all things, he also believes that for the voice of revelation to speak clearly in the contemporary world, the way must be prepared by establishing the logical possibility of
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