Bultmann seized what he could use of these ideas: the anxiety produced by the existential question; the dread produced by the answer of death to all; the attempted flight into worldly business,
social status and ephemera; the rare courage to begin an
existence which would be
authentic because open - eyed.
Throughout his life, love was always Auden's remedy, but in these early years he described it sometimes in Freudian terms as a release from repression, sometimes in Marxist terms as
authentic existence through
social action.
Rightly understood, faith and justice are in principle different because, while faith is a matter of human
existence, of
authentic self - understanding in trust and loyalty in response to God's love, justice is a matter of human action, whether right action toward all others (its generally moral sense), or right structures of
social and cultural order (its specifically political sense).