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What has always been at stake for me in insisting on "the reality of God" comes out particularly clearly and directly in my essay, "The Promise of Faith," especially in my criticism of "a certain misunderstanding" of Bultmann's approach to the meaning of eschatological symbols (RG: 215-219). I argue against this misunderstanding by appealing to the New Testament, making my point "over-simply" as follows: "whereas for this kind of existential theology, 'resurrection' designates a human possibility, for [s]cripture, it also refers, and, indeed, primarily, to a divine actuality" (216).

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