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

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

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

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

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

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

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

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

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.

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.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

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.

What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

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

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.

There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the less he spoke Why can't we be like that wise old owl in the tree? Speech must die to serve that which is spoken.

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, "If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles."

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself.

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