In this article I argue that an account of the starting‐point of systematic theology should be shaped by an understanding of what I call the ‘existential preconditions’ of theological work. I develop accounts of three such preconditions – embodiment, subjectivity and spatiality – for the sake of showing that they both stand as necessary conditions of theological work, and represent topics of and in systematic theology. Reflection on this twofold ‘precondition of but topic in’ dynamic serves as a foundation for the claim that theology is always undertaken ‘in the middle of things’, and is best understood to have its starting‐point there.

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事物中间的神学：系统神学的存在前提

在本文中，我认为对系统神学起点的解释应通过对我所谓的神学工作的“存在前提”的理解来形成。为了说明它们既是神学工作的必要条件，又代表了系统神学的主题，我对三个这样的前提进行了阐述，即体现力，主观性和空间性。对这种双重的“先入为主的先决条件”动态的反思为主张神学总是“在事物中间”进行的主张奠定了基础，并且最好理解神学是从那里开始的。