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In arguing for the difference between Christian faith and pantheism, however, Bultmann takes no explicit account of this. In fact, for all he says to the contrary, he takes the difference in question to consist simply in pantheism's being a "world view," while Christian faith in God is not. But by saying nothing about Christian faith in God 's nonetheless necessarily implying a world view, he leaves the impression that faith, as he understands it, may be after all something very like Hare's blik, or Van Buren's "historical perspective," in direct contradiction to his own insistence in the same context that faith's talk about God's acting is not only "a pictorial way of designating subjective experiences ... but means to speak of an act in a fully real, 'objective' sense" (110 f.).

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