Cover of: Epistemology and Christology
Christine Helmer

Epistemology and Christology

Section: Diskussionsbeiträge
Volume 86 (2021) / Issue 3, pp. 355-363 (9)
Published 25.01.2022
DOI 10.1628/thr-2021-0019
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Summary
This paper addresses the new epistemological challenges that the Covid pandemic exposes, specifically the problematic »back to normal« mantra that forgets the intersectional injustices permeating contemporary society; and the difficulty in relating the incommensurable sides of the »metaphysical size gap« between personal experience of trauma and global statistics. A way forward is charted by theology's christological meaning-making on the cross, discussed as the reality of uniting incommensurables, while resisting any rational solution.