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.

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.

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

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.

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

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.