ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic is a multidimensional crisis with biological, psychological, political, and spiritual dimensions. Efforts to address the crisis limited to a single dimension fail to promote holistic human health. For human flourishing, an adequate conception of humanity, the natural world, and the challenges we face as well as metaphysical grounds for hope to motivate long-term remediation efforts are needed. Paul Tillich’s multidimensional unity of life accomplishes all this by framing the ecological interdependence of all within a transcendent horizon and viewing all beings as participates in the power of the Ground of Being to overcome estrangement motivates eschatological hope.