 " During the seventies my sense of the theological vocation changed . I did not lose interest in developing the Christian tradition so as to render it intelligible , convincing , and illuminating in a changing context . But I did reject the compartmentalization of my discipline of ' constructive theology , ' especially in its separation from ethics , and more generally in its isolation from other academic disciplines ... I was persuaded that no problem could be more critical than that of a decent survival of a humanity that threatened to destroy itself by exhausting and polluting its natural context . " 
