The contribution begins with the philosopher Wolfgang Janke's diagnosis of the crisis of modernity, according to which we live in a world that has become more precise / specified (praecisio mundi). The social and individual, scientific and religious consequences of this realization that, in the current positivist age, only that which can be precisely calculated, produced, measured and made available is accepted as real, are reflected upon in terms of philosophy of language, educational theory and existential theology. In these three dimensions, the aim is to develop a hermeneutic orientation knowledge about the basic understanding of the importance of perspective-based world interpretation competence for the ethical educational needs of people and society in the face of rationalist, scientistic and economic reductionist tendencies. For theological hermeneutics, this means constantly emphasizing the existential relevance of the Christian world of language in its own dignity out of the situation of the fundamental crisis of theology. This concern seems to coincide with E. Jüngel's theological program of 'God as the mystery of the world'. Therefore, one main question of this contribution is to what extent Jüngel's hermeneutical concern can be brought into constructive dialogue with Janke's diagnosis of the crisis against the background of his critique of modernity and the modern age, or whether one or the other program will only turn out to be an aporetic deepening of the fundamental crisis of theology.