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This volume explores current understandings of the global meaning of faith and suffering in the context of COVID-19 and interrogates responses to the pandemic that have emerged from World Christianity. It includes chapters by a range of international contributors approached from a variety of angles within the Global Christian theology. They provide reflections and analyses focused on the question of God, human suffering, structural injustice, the role of the church and Christian praxis in the milieu of COVID-19, where misery and dying are daily routine. This book will be of interest to scholars of Missiology, World Christianity, biblical/public/contextual theology and various contemporary Christian studies.
List of contents
Part 1 Faith Making Sense of Suffering
1 A Critical Examination of how some Questionable Perspectives are Revealed within Chinese Christian Reactions to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tsung-I Hwang
2 Covid-19: A Reflection from Indigenous Peoples' Lifeway
Atola Longkumer
3 Perceptions of COVID-19 in a Sample of Female Clergy: Implications for Theological Understandings of Suffering
Anisah Bagasra, Alison Mc Letchie and Robin Dease
4 The Word of God and the Covid-19: Intercultural Reading of Job's Questions to God
Nicoletta Gatti and Alexander Salakpi
5 The Holy Spirit, Human Suffering and Healing: An Initial Pentecostal Reflection
Wonsuk Ma
6 COVID-19, the Question of Evils, Human Freedom and Divine Attributes
Cyril Ejike
7 Asking God Tough Questions: The Use of Interrogatives in Habakkuk's First Chapter
May Young
8 Martin Luther's Understanding of Righteousness and its Implications and Challenges to COVID-19
Jayabalan Murthy
9 Who Tweeted "Mene Mene Tekel Parsin"?: COVID-19, Twitter and Apocalyptic Literature
Wesley Magruder
10 COVID-19 and Human Suffering
Augustine Chingwala Musopole
Part 2 Faith Taking Action
11 Pacific Christianity Online or On The Line?: Renewing Church, Sacrament and Worship amidst the Pandemic
Faafetai Aiava
12 Liberation after COVID-19-(Re)Building Hope for Older and Disabled People beyond the Global Hegemonies of "Youth" and "Growth"
Francis Davis
13 "Give us this Day our Daily Bread?": Innovative Responses by Faith Communities to Suffering during COVID-19 within a Context of Inequality and Poverty in South Africa
Nadine Bowers Du Toit and Craig Stewart
14 Theology and Ethics of Pastoral Accompaniment for Patients with COVID-19 in the Context of Physical Distancing
Telesia K. Musili and Edith K. Chamwama
15 Trusting in God's Protection in the Wake of COVID-19: An Exegetical Reading of Psalm 91
Joseph Otoo Ayeh and George Ossom-Batsa
16 Love in the Time of Corona: Case Studies of Theodicy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Gangri "Philip" Gobu
17 The Evangelical Church's Love Affair with Injustice (White Supremacy): A Womanist Study of Mishpat during COVID-19
CL Nash and Esther Mombo
18 The Church and COVID-19 Pandemic: Voices of Myanmar Women Clerics
Naw Eh Tar Gay
19 Reflections on an Ecological Conversion of Catholic Spirituality Today
Elisabeth Steffens
About the author
Chammah J. Kaunda Assistant Professor in the United Graduate School of Theology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Religion and Theology, the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
Atola Longkumer is a visiting professor of Religions and Missions at the South Asian Institute of Advanced Christian Studies in Bengaluru, India.
Kenneth R. Ross is Professor of Theology at Zomba Theological College, Malawi.
Esther Mombo is a Professor in the Faculty of Theology at St. Paul's University, Kenya.
Summary
This volume explores current understandings of the global meaning of faith and suffering in the context of COVID-19 and interrogates responses to the pandemic that have emerged from World Christianity.
