Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
Testimony gives something to be interpreted.
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.
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
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.
The text is a limited field of possible constructions.
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.
What must be the nature of the world... If human beings are able to introduce changes into it?
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
