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" Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one. "
Today
Always
Question
" But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. "
Something
Destiny
History
" 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. "
Old
Narrative
Mouth
" 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. "
Me
Ethics
Understanding
" Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death. "
Death
Living
Resurrection
" If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal. "
More
Text
True
" If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death. "
Death
Resurrection
Dead
" 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. "
Against
Always
Possible
" 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. "
Differences
Man
Destination
" 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. "
Understanding
Foundation
World
" Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder. "
Narrative
Story
Movement
" 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. "
Life
Meaningful
Questions
" Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. "
Language
Easy
Expression
" So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm. "
New
Long
Decipher
" Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. "
Event
Because
Meaning
" Testimony gives something to be interpreted. "
Gives
Interpreted
Something
" Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen. "
Problem
Testimony
Historical
" The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative. "
Than
Concrete
More
" The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. "
Move
Logic
Limits
" The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. "
World
Good
Law
" 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. "
Character
Her
Identity
" There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation. "
Always
Because
Been
" There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible. "
Bible
Path
Decision
" The text is a limited field of possible constructions. "
Possible
Field
Limited
" This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom. "
Book
Best
Job
" What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it? "
Changes
Human
Introduce
" Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. "
Expression
Literary
Literature
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