Testimony Gives Something To Be Interpreted.

Although There Has Always Been A Hermeneutic Problem In Christianity, The Hermeneutic Question Today Seems To Us A New One.

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. 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. Hence To Demythologize Is To Interpret Myth, That Is, To Relate The Objective Representations Of The Myth To The Self-understanding Which Is Both Shown And Concealed In It.

Testimony Gives Something To Be Interpreted.

We Are Not Capable Of Producing A Concept Of Time That Is At Once Cosmological, Biological, Historical And Individual