Systematic Theology harnesses the best modern reason has to offer for a coherent and rational presentation of Christian faith. Constructive Theologies point to the contextual nature of all theology, and criticize systematicity’s unexamined bias and complicity in structural injustice and oppression. Moving beyond epistemic incommensurability and mutual imputations, this article presents one Systematic Theologian’s attempt to understand such criticism as pointing to the insurmountable implication of theology in epistemological sin. Drawing on the architectural metaphor in construction and system‐building, it proposes a new understanding of theological work as conceptual design, responsibly ordering and structuring given materials for a purpose. It thus has to account for the actual use, material effects and fit with environmental requirements of its doctrinal design. Aspiring to a more realistic adaequatio ad rem thus necessitates an expansion of theology’s critical standards to encompass not only cognitive and logical criteria, but also the practical effects and uses of doctrine in an ethic of affordances. Finally, ‘queer use’ effectively expresses how both the lives of real human beings and the reality of God will never fit into conceptual logics nor be exhausted by whatever current use we attribute to them.

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概念设计，罪过与学说

系统神学利用最好的现代理由来提供连贯而合理的基督教信仰表述。建构神学指向所有神学的语境性质，并批评系统性在结构性不公正和压迫中的未经检验的偏见和同谋。本文超越了认识论不可通约性和相互推论，提出了一位系统神学家试图理解这种批评的尝试，指出了神学在认识论罪恶中具有不可逾越的含义。借鉴建筑和系统构建中的建筑隐喻，它提出了对作为概念设计的神学工作的新理解，负责任地对给定材料进行了排序和结构化。因此，它必须考虑实际使用情况，物质效果并符合其理论设计的环境要求。追求更现实因此，适当的对等有必要扩大神学的批判标准，使其不仅包括认知和逻辑标准，而且还应包括在奉献伦理中的理论的实际效果和使用。最后，“酷儿使用”有效地表达了真实人类的生活和上帝的现实将永远不会融入概念逻辑，也不会因我们归因于它们的任何当前用法而精疲力尽。