Das Wagnis des Gewöhnlichen

Is Christian faith possible without metaphysics? Is the idea of a non-metaphysical philosophy of religion or theology not contradictory in itself? In conversation with Wittgenstein's and Stanley Cavell's thinking, which is critical of metaphysics, Andreas Hunziker searches for a theology of the ordinary, which perceives the life of faith neither as »something which is behind nature and which makes it possible« nor as a skeptical denial of this metaphysical escapism. Its function is therapeutic, and consists of working through our metaphysical fantasies which keep us from seeing what it means to live in the midst of ordinary life. Christian faith is thus shown to be a way of recovering the ordinary, the turning from the actual ordinary to the possible ordinary.