Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.
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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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There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.
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Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.
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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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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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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 Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.
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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.
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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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