Abstract
One of the defining characteristics of theology, which it shares with philosophy in contrast to the special sciences, is that it necessarily includes reflection on its own conditions of possibility as a form of understanding. Thus the question of what theology is is itself a theological question, whose answer is subject to the same criteria of adequacy as any other theological statement. For reasons that will presently become clear, the theological understanding of theology peculiarly coincides with the philosophical, with the result that it is applicable in principle not only to Christian theology but also to the theological reflection cognate with any other witness of faith or religion. Moslem theology, for example, may be understood, mutatis mutandis, as the fully reflective understanding of Islam as similarly decisive for human existence.
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