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Some have argued Winquist’s work is 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= 1987 |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= 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. 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.}}</ref> Theologies of proclamation are internally rich, but not always richly connected to modern-day concerns; exploring the middle reveals “theories of discourse" that delve into the primary meaning of spiritual awareness. The “falsification of experiences” that elevates one tradition over another demands an exploration on the nature of God, a pilgrimage that
This conversation, in consideration with theology's distinct publics (the wider society, the academy, and the church) transcends daily life because it displays the “otherness of its semantic achievement.” The word of God is a realm of understanding that, again, is not just an understanding of the text, but an understanding <i>through</i> language, an understanding that transcends the subject by revealing the experience of the subject.<ref name="foo7"/> Theological discussions open conversations that help create a theology open to its diverse publics.<ref name="foo10"/> Theology's relevance is distinguished by the openendedness of its presence.<ref name="foo11"/>
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