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"Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature."
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"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"
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"If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death."
"So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one."
"There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation."
"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."
"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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