Pandemia i wirus apokalipsy
Pandemic and the Apocalypse Virus

Summary/Abstract: For many the appearance of the coronavirus in Europe was tantamount to a fulfilment of the prophecy contained in the Revelation of St. John. Apocalyptic rhetoric frequently recurred in statements made by members of the Church hierarchy and secular publicists. The author of the presented text considers the reason of using the apocalyptic matrix for the purpose of understanding the actual expansion of the coronavirus and proposes abandoning the naive, referential reading of the Revelation of St. John for the sake of an existential approach. The apocalyptic time dimension perceived from this perspective would signify that the Beginning and the End are within every moment and do not create extra-temporal borders. A thus comprehended apocalyptic quality is not a gloomy story about the dangers threatening us (rainfalls of blood, falling stars, and swarming locusts) but the realistic name of a condition in which our fate is resolved constantly.

• Details
• Contents