communal way of life—the culture—that is the Christian church. It is the form of the church’s life and language that gives doctrines their substance and meaning. This option shines with postmodern promise. Proponents of this view have no need either to aspire to or to pretend to have objectivity; on the contrary, the theologian’s task is to describe how things look from within a certain ecclesial perspective. This perspective has come down to us through a centuries-long dynamic process: tradition.