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| source = —Charles E. Winquist <br /><i>The Epistemology of Darkness: Preliminary Reflections</i>.
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Some argued Winquist’s work was purely academic, at least regarding his posthumously published, “The Surface of the Deep”.<ref name="Tilley">{{cite book |last1=Tilley|first1=Terrence W. |title=Theological Studies |date=June 2005 |publisher=Vol. 66 Issue 2, p. 495.}}</ref> And indeed, Winquist argued that a Christological witness cannot be relocated in "fundamental theology"—the philosophical, anthropological, scientific, and theological study to mediate faith’s meaning in culture—without destroying fundamental theology itself. But Winquist also explored how an authentic conversation created hope, developed and articulated in the conversation itself, "a hope that is intertwined with a faith that is always and already a part of the conversation".<ref name="Tracy">{{cite book |last1=Tracy |first1=David |title=Plurality and Ambiguity: Hermeneutics, Religion, Hope |date=Summer 1987 |publisher=publisher=San Francisco: Harper and Row .}}</ref><ref name="foo10">{{cite book |last1=Winquist |first1=Charles E. |title=“Analogy, Apology, and the Imaginative Pluralism of David Tracy” |date=Summer 1988 |publisher=The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, LVI/2.}}</ref>
The vitality of theological thinking goes far beyond the content of its reflection, however. It is the process itself that persists in the “genre of human activity”.<ref name="foo11">{{cite book |last1=Winquist |first1=Charles E. |title=Theology, Deconstruction and Ritual Process |date=September 1983 |publisher=Zygon, Vol. 18, Number 3, September 1983.}}</ref> God is always found in the middle of life’s experience, not in the “fictive productions of heuristic strategies”.<ref name="foo" /> It manifests itself when we are thinking about thinking. The “falsification of experiences” that elevates one tradition over another demands exploration on the nature of God, an exploration that is fundamental to both epistemology and theology.<ref name="epiphanies">{{cite book |last1=Winquist| first1=Charles. |title= Epiphanies of Darkness: Deconstruction in Theology |date= |publisher=Philadelphia: Fortress Press) p.7.}}</ref> The concept of God in major religions, and the “truth of body” found in Buddhism are metaphysical. It cannot be understood outright, a common difficulty faced by every religion: the ultimate truth is driven by faith. It is important for practitioners to believe, but it is also important to distinguish between “belief in one religion” and “belief in many religions”.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dalailama.com/messages/religious-harmony-1/religious-harmony |title=A Biased Mind Cannot Grasp Reality |last=The 14th Dalai Lama |date=2005 |work=International Association for Religious Freedom, Ladakh Group}}</ref>
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