There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.
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So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
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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.
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