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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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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die."

"In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep."
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"So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm."

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

"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."

"The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative."

"Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one."

"The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct."

"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."

"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."

"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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