constitutive foundation for secondary theology … [then] Lex supplicandi legem statuat credendi is effectively reversed,”36 says Kavanagh. And “to reverse the maxim, subordinating the standard of worship to the standard of belief, makes a shambles of the dialectic of revelation.”37 The maxim that lex orandi establishes (statuat) the Church’s lex credendi is a way of saying that God’s activity establishes our belief. It does not mean, to the contrary, that worship reflects our theology; it does not