Entzogene Leiblichkeit: Kommunikation im Lockdown

During the pandemic human bodies were mainly viewed from a problematic perspective of risk (for ourselves and others) and vulnerability - despite the 'corporeal turn' and the awareness of the significance of 'embodiment' in anthropological debates in sciences and humanities. However, the approach to embodiment seems to be characterised by an account of bodies as means of self-realisation and maintenance. The article tries to re-discover biblical-theological aspects of the significance of human bodiliness for a theological understanding of the question what it means to be human - emphasising human embodiment as a promise rather than a risk or threat. Approaching the human body with its core, the human heart, as the resonance bodies for God's address leads to an understanding of the vulnerability of our bodily lives that is appreciative, hopeful and confident: Human bodiliness is the imprint of being creatures of God's word, created for embodied conversation with God and each other.