reflection upon the God whom Christians worship and adore.”6 Kathryn Tanner surmises that Christian theology is trying to figure out “what Christianity is all about, what Christianity stands for in the world.”7 Robert Jenson said that “theology is the thinking integral to the task of speaking the gospel, whether to humankind as message or to God in praise and petition.”8 Sarah Coakley calls theology “an integrated presentation of Christian truth … [that] must attempt to provide a coherent, and alluring,
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