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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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" 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. "

" There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation. "

" There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible. "

" This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom. "

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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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" The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. "

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" What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it? "

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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. "

" But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. "

" Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm. "