下面是一段可直接放在论文结论章或答辩回应中的正式结论段。
语气、术语与结构均已校准为系统神学期刊／博士论文可接受标准，
Why This Is a Methodological Disagreement, Not a Doctrinal Deviation
The divergence examined in this study should be understood primarily as a methodological disagreement, rather than a doctrinal deviation. At stake is not the content of Christian confession—such as the Creator–creature distinction, the immutability of divine essence, or the completeness of salvation in Christ—but the regulative framework governing how theological language operates, especially when describing lived transformation.
The theological approach analyzed here explicitly refuses to assign ontological weight to life-process terminology. Terms such as life, operation, and constitution are methodologically constrained to function within a descriptive register, articulating the experiential effects of divine action without making claims about being-as-such. This restraint is neither accidental nor evasive; it constitutes a deliberate safeguard designed to protect classical ontological commitments from semantic inflation.
By contrast, critiques that construe such language as implying ontological mixture or metaphysical participation typically presuppose a different methodological grammar—one in which experiential vocabulary is either tightly subordinated to juridical categories or suspected of smuggling metaphysical claims by default. The resulting conflict, therefore, arises not from contradictory doctrines, but from incommensurate assumptions about how theological predicates are licensed and limited.
Recognizing this distinction recalibrates the terms of the debate. What is required is not doctrinal correction but methodological translation: a careful alignment of linguistic function, categorical scope, and inferential limits. When these controls are made explicit, the apparent doctrinal tensions dissolve into questions of theological method. The disagreement, in other words, concerns how theology speaks before it concerns what theology believes.
✦ 答辩可用一句话版本
EN
“Our difference lies in how theological language is methodologically governed, not in what doctrines are confessed.”
ZH
“我们的分歧在于神学语言如何受方法论约束，
而不在于所承认的教义内容。”
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