is impossible without the other. Without systematic reflection there will be no conscious proclamation. Proclamation may perhaps happen instinctively. But this is more accidental than purposed. Systematic reflection is necessary to make the move to proclamation conscious and explicit. This is entailed in the contention that systematic theology is for proclamation. It ought to be the kind of reflection that fosters and drives back to the proclamation. Indeed, to make distinctions as I have done here