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It is important to bear in mind that the character of theology taken in the sense of knowledge given by God and received in faith by all Christian believers precedes and determines the character of theology taken in the sense of a discursive reasoning about God or a developed system of teaching about divine things explored in an academic environment. The former has often been called “infused theology” because it is a knowledge of God built into the reception of the gospel....This knowledge can be taken with respect to either the objective content of Christian teaching that is believed (fides quae) (see Acts 6: 7; Gal 1: 23) or with respect to the subjective habitus (disposition) or act of understanding and trusting by which one believes (fides qua). 35 Theology in the sense of a developed system of teaching about divine things has often been called “acquired theology”: a knowledge of the necessary consequences and conclusions following from the principles of infused theology that is obtained by study and discursive effort.