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Guarino argues in this volume that the doctrinal form of the Christian faith, in its essential characteristics, calls for certain theoretical exigencies. This is to say that the proportion and beauty of the form is not served or illuminated by simply any presuppositions. Rather, a determinate understanding of first philosophy, of the nature of truth, of hermeneutical theory, of the predication of...

face of the extrinsicism of the Catholic neo-Scholastic account of revelation, that theology should manifest, if possible, the congruency of the doctrinal tradition with human experience.15 To claim that the dogmatic assertions of the church may have some resonance in human experience, or that theologians should seek to show an “immanent” element “reaching” correlatively for the truth of the doctrine—to, in other words, provide at least something of an apologetical element for systematic theology
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