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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.
Paul Ricoeur
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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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Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.
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This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
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But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
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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.
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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.
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If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
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Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
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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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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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