A More Excellent Way: Recovering Mystery in COVID Care

Abstract

This article explores the fundamental role of mystery in the care of patients suffering from COVID-19. Specific attention is paid to the disparity between modern and post-modern approaches to mystery and how medical instruction and care has often been conducted in the vein of the former. However, with post-moderns now being trained as medical clinicians and serving on the frontlines of this pandemic, there is an opportunity to return to a more ancient manner of understanding humanity, one which places mystery on equal footing with chemistry.

Closed Churches during the Pandemic: Liberal versus Conservative and Christian versus Atheist Argumentation in Media

“…Conteh 2020; Galiatsatos et al 2020). This finding is in line with the pattern observed in research projects conducted in other countries-where many of the findings affirmed the positive influence of religion on mental health (Modell and Kardia 2020;Hong and Handal 2020;Koenig 2020;Molteni et al 2020), the presence of religious solidarity (VanderWeele 2020) and the importance of spirituality in the fight against the pandemic (Genig 2020;Chirico and Nucera 2020).…”

Religion in the US during the time of a Pandemic: A Medical Perspective

“…Reality or not, appealing to mystery has value when relating to others. Genig argues that treating the patient at a post-modern level, understanding the individual person and not getting lost in the weeds of chemistry, will aid the curative intent of health professionals (Genig, 2020 ). Science aids understanding, but avoiding reductionism and the perception of humans as a mere collection of atoms will bring greater success.…”