According to Karen Barad, knowledge production does not occur through objectifying abstraction. Rather, human knowledge is produced through being a part of the "differential becoming" of the world. If faith is considered as not belonging outside of the world in its "differential becoming," then even faith itself must be something determinative of or determined by other modes of existence. However, when faith is modalized, the reality of faith as an entangled object among worldly objects unearths the potential of a hermeneutically understood modalization of faith.
This line of thinking will be pursued with particular attention to Jüngel's 1969 essay entitled "The World as Possibility and Actuality," where Jüngel determines the ontological priority of possibility over actuality. In this essay, he grounds the divine being in the act of differentiation of the impossible and possible. Using Jüngel's categories (i.e., possible, actual, impossible, verification, etc.), the paper asks specific questions regarding faith's relation to these processes understood within the world of possibilities: what determines the actions and objects in the world given the entangled nature of reality? How would a modalized faith function among the possible actualities and the actual possibilities arising from the fundamental and differentiated becoming of the world?
To pursue this line of questioning, the paper argues for a modalizing faith as a promising hermeneutical lens through which we can encounter the entangled world of possible actualities. To do so, the paper first defines what "modalizing faith" entails. Then, the paper turns to the relation of faith thus understood to other worldly actions and experiences of objects. Finally, the argument concludes by exploring the entangled nature of reality and how modalizing faith actually determines these entanglements without being determined by objects or objectifying faith itself.