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In his view, this self-awareness necessarily fosters a concomitant sense of finitude that heightens the interpreter's (or the interpreting community's) openness to alternative hermeneutical frameworks. Historical de-essentialization is shot through with a reformist announcement of God's sovereignty and the finitude or 'pilgrimage' required for witness. Either in response to an intrinsic anxiety about our finitude or because our ontologies exacerbate fears of death and tend toward exclusivity and dogmatism, we often vilify those whose actual or apparent lifestyles seem to question prevailing social norms, especially the quest to control nature in order to become wealthy. |
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