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Vulnerable Creation: Vulnerable Human Life between Risk and Tragedy1
Author(s) -
Springhart Heike
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/dial.12358
Subject(s) - tragedy (event) , vulnerability (computing) , bridge (graph theory) , character (mathematics) , human life , environmental ethics , situational ethics , realism , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , theology , computer science , social science , computer security , biology , geometry , mathematics , humanity , anatomy
In this paper a theology of vulnerability is explored by describing three bridges between risk and tragedy. Conceptually , ontological and situational vulnerability will be explored as the basis of anthropological realism. Hermeneutically , a case study is done by interpreting the documentary film “Roadside Radiation,” which shows attempts to live a normal life in tragedy in the “death zone” around Chernobyl. The theological bridge unfolds a theological approach to vulnerability that grasps its processive character.