to defy the limits of rationality, including miracles; indeed, Jesus’s resurrection from the dead, as a historical fact, became a cornerstone of his critical-rational approach to doing theology. Call it a sort of postcritical stance. Alongside great theologians of the past, including Thomas Aquinas, Pannenberg argued that the “object” of theology is God, but because God is the Creator of all, theologians also study everything in relation to God. Hence, theology’s domain is wide and inclusive, not
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