RT Article T1 Was ist verantwortliche Rede von Gott? JF Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche VO 94 IS 4 SP 511 OP 531 A1 Lange, Dietz 1933- LA German YR 1997 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1784623482 AB Speaking responsibly about God means responding to God's 'Word' as well as being answerable to humans. That implies commitment to God in faith and to humans in love, which is to be mediated by detached reasoning. This apparent contradiction between end and means can be resolved only by 'performative' language authorized by God Himself. That leaves all actual human speech in an unavoidable dialectical tension of commitment and rationality.