This paper aims to explore some limits of the functions of narrative in hermeneutical theology outlined in the panel's description. Narrative is indeed employed in hermeneutical theology as a mode of theological reasoning and ordering that is explicitly stated or intended to be non-metaphysical, phenomenologically concrete and mindful of difference and plurality. However, ironically, this very methodological foundationality of narrative also opens the category to the risk of becoming a mirror image of what it was was originally employed to avoid: If not in name then in effect a comprehensively 'metaphysical' category wherein difference is organized within narrative as a conceptual framework that remains, in itself, monolithic. It would then employ a kind of discursive power it explicitly attempted to avoid. To prevent this consequence, it appears necessary to turn the attention of hermeneutical theology to various 'others' of narrative (and, by extension, of understanding itself): e. g. its own mediality, the irreducibility of the other person, and the unnarratable as such. The paper asks how these others may be accounted for in hermeneutical-theological reflection by employing the category of mystery - used by Eberhard Jüngel, for example, in a mostly christological sense - as a kind of border term, a discursive 'buffer' that avoid final definability and thus establishes an attitude of hermeneutical modesty.