at one with all who suffer, consciously or unconsciously. But the end does not disappear in history either, making this future a matter of indifference to faith. Because faith can hope for this future, it begins to resist and to change the scheme of this world and the systems of the present. For a long time the Christian faith interpreted the transcendence it believed it had found in Christ metaphysically; later it understood transcendence existentially; today the important thing is that faith is