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When Bultmann says -- in says—in his discussion with Karl Jaspers—that Jaspers -- that Jaspers cannot get around so explicating what he calls "clarification of existence" (Existenzerhellung) that it becomes generally understandable, which is to say, "he must objectify it to doctrine" (90), he is evidently applying to the case of the philosopher of existence the very principles he later applies to the theologian. I refer to what he says about the paradox of theology -- namelytheology—namely, that, "like all science, it must speak of faith objectifyingly, in the knowledge that all its speaking makes its point only in sublating the objectification" (96).

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