Panel: NARRATIVES BEYOND METAPHYSICS: POSSIBILITIES OF ORDER IN HERMENEUTICAL THEOLOGY



452.3 - WHEN STORIES MAKE TRUTH RESONATE: THE ANALOGIA INCARNATIONIS AS A GRAMMAR

AUTHORS:
Busti P. (Facultés Loyola Paris ~ Paris ~ France)
Text:
This paper asks whether Christian Christology can offer a form of order beyond classical metaphysics by retrieving its narrative and evental character. Drawing on Hartmut Rosa's category of resonance, Jesus is interpreted as the singular resonance of God with the world: a resonant singularity that generates further singularities. In him, a particular grammar of resonance becomes visible — a way of relating to the world analogically and creatively. His Paschal event reveals a world that always has something to say, a world structured not by domination but by responsive relation. Christological truth thus appears not as a closed system but as an ongoing opening of salvation within the common human sphere. Justice re-emerges as resonance between Word and life, as creative love. What sustains and transmits this truth are narratives: vulnerable yet resistant forms that make a shared depth vibrate. Engaging Eberhard Jüngel's understanding of analogy as grounded in the event of incarnation, the paper argues that analogy is not a mere comparison but an event that structures reality. Building on Adolphe Gesché's intuition of an analogia incarnationis, I propose the outline of a grammar of analogical resonance capable of rethinking theological order hermeneutically — not as metaphysical control, but as generative responsiveness.