Abstract
The prevailing pandemic caused by the covid-19 has plunged the entire world into anxiety and fear. How does a corona virus multiply itself and infect human beings? How can we cope with the anxiety and fear we feel in face with the covid-19? What on earth are we anxious about? What kind of fear shows itself in the pandemic? A complex of problems raised by the pandemic should be resolved not only by professionals in an infectious disease, specialists in hygiene, physicians, nurses, politicians, policymakers, and economists, but also by philosophers/scientists in religion, theologians, and persons engaged in religious practice. This paper strives to provide an analysis of the corona virus pandemic from the point of view of a historian of Christian thought. Insight into the invisible, the essential role of breath and breathing for human life, something transcendent beyond the boundaries of human reason, and agendas of a theology of kenosis are the main topics of the paper.
