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Proposition
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PROPOSITION. An offer to do something. Until it has been accepted, a proposition may be withdrawn by the party who makes it; and to be binding, the acceptance must be in the same terms, without any variation. Vide Acceptance; Offer; To retract; and 1 L. R. 190; 4 L. R. 80.
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Biblical theology can be a pretty dreary modern affair, where protestant Biblicism tries to curb the philosophical imagination and the critical questions to which theology is from its pagan origins tempted; or it is where doctrinal theology subjects biblical interpretation to the alien disciplines of propositional orthodoxy.
The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event by Keller, Catherine / Cross Currents
Storytelling is also relatively readable, but may be more narrative and interrogative, as well as propositional.
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In a 1969 essay, "Literature as the 'Site' of Theology," written in the wake of Vatican II, Chenu argued that Catholic theology had drifted into abstract, propositional thought and urgently needed to recover its roots in the Scriptures.
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