possible the present state of the question. Having addressed the theme of discontinuity and its roots, I propose, in a final train of thought, to say something more about the counter-effort, about the attempt to comprehend history as mediation in such a way that even the future can be hope only because it promises the freedom to be. This thesis is supported by the fact that, in the naming of Christ as the second Adam, with the differentiation that distinguishes him from the first Adam, the whole