theology is unavoidably pluralistic both in its religious presuppositions and its philosophical under-pinnings. Obviously, there is available a wide spectrum of epistemological options ranging from strict empiricism and linguistic analysis (Wittgenstein) to neoclassic metaphysics (Whitehead). Generally discernible is the refusal of commitment to any one metaphysical system; not infrequently this is radicalized into an anti-metaphysical bias. David Tracy (Blessed Rage for Order, 1975) has singled