How Christian Theology Contributes to Christian Witness in the World:

When theology confesses its own solidarity with all flesh and with the whole world under God's judgment, it receives hope in the grace of God...Evangelical theology...is to be pursued in hope, though as human work it is radically questioned by God, found guilty in God's judgment and verdict--and though collapsing long before it reaches its goal, it relies on God who...seeks out, heals, and saves [the theologian] and [her] work. This God is the hope of theology.

--Karl Barth

 

References:

McBride, J. M. (2012). The church for the world: a theology of public witness. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Theological Witness Statement | Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary. (2012). Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary. Retrieved November 5, 2012, from http://seminary.fresno.edu/about/theological-witness-statement