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Rudolf Bultmann - Freedom from the world is, in...

Freedom from the world is, in principle, not asceticism, but rather a distance from the world for which all participation in things worldly takes place in the attitude of "as if not.”. (Rudolf Bultmann)

Freedom from the world is, in principle, not asceticism, but rather a distance from the world for which all participation in things worldly takes place in the attitude of "as if not.”.

Rudolf Bultmann

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