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

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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