Hope in times of pandemic: reflections on contemporary eschatology in the context of Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted all the inequalities and social fissures. It has further revealed the existential crisis in which the postmodern individual is inserted. It is a global crisis, affecting all areas of life: from the sanitary front to the economic one. The pandemic wave is leaving behind a trail of death and suffering. In the context of social isolation, some critical issues have emerged and led the human being to question the meaning of life. What have we done with our lives and Common House? The present article seeks to reflect on this question taking into account some points of Christian eschatology, as beacons of hope. The text is divided into two main parts. In the first, following a descriptive approach based on news media, we take a general look at the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic for the world and, fundamentally, for the individual. In the face of death, the human being questions the meaning of life. In the second part, eschatology, that is, according to Jurgen Moltmann, the theology of hope, points out possible ways to offer appropriate answers to the uncertainties of what is definitive, but not "definitive answers". This approach has to do with hope, the main interpretative key of such a theology. A dynamic hope committed to transforming human beings and caring for the Common House.