hospitality to strangers shapes its teaching about the Christian mission. Yet there is an argument against founding doctrine upon any one of these practices, or any combination of them—or, as with Liberation Theologies, building it primarily upon the church's practice (praxis) vis-a-vis the wider society: Since each powerful practice is subject to distortion, even to demonic abuse (see Ethics, Six), doctrine based directly upon it is likewise liable to abuse. Thus the wise church, in the formation