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There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
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Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
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Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.
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The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.
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So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
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There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.
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First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
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On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
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For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
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Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
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It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.
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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
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Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
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