Umsonst

We have gotten used to regarding humans as deficient beings, who would have no chance in the struggle for existence if they did not know how to actively compensate for the weaknesses of their biological nature by means of technology, morals, media, religion and culture. In contrast, Ingolf U. Dalferth sees them as creatures of possibility whose lives are not based on their deeds but on what happens to them, and whose destiny does not depend on the differentiation between human and non-human animals but rather on the differentiation between humane and inhumane humans. Thus the crucial challenge for theology is not evolutionary biology and neurobiology but rather the ethical, political and theological question of the destiny of the humanity of human beings.