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Piet Schoonenberg S.J. (1911-1999) was one of the most prominent theologians to the last century. His dissertation was never published during his life-time. As part of a dissertation project J. Mettepenningen has published a text-critical edition, since Schoonenberg had to rewrite his 1948 conclusions; in 1951 he presented a new text. This final text is published separately. The publication of this first major work by Schoonenberg on the method of theology can serve well as the starting point for a reconstruction of Schoonenbergs chemin de Ia theologie, the development of his views on the task of theology. As the end of such a reconstruction the methodological reflections of his fmal publication are used. It appears that the decisions Schoonenberg takes in his dissertation decisions that were partly responsible for the nonpublicationcan rightly be seen as the foundation for his later theology.