ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

Faith facing suffering

part 1|118 pages

Faith Making Sense of Suffering

chapter 2|13 pages

Covid-19

A reflection from Indigenous peoples' lifeway

chapter 3|11 pages

Perceptions of COVID-19 in a sample of female clergy

Implications for theological understandings of suffering

chapter 4|11 pages

The Word of God and the Covid-19

Intercultural reading of Job's questions to God

chapter 5|11 pages

The Holy Spirit, human suffering and healing

An initial Pentecostal reflection

chapter 7|10 pages

Asking God tough questions

The Use of interrogatives in Habakkuk's first chapter

chapter 9|11 pages

Who tweeted “Mene Mene Tekel Parsin”?

COVID-19, Twitter and apocalyptic literature

part 2|100 pages

Faith Taking Action

chapter 11|11 pages

Pacific Christianity online or on the line?

Renewing church, sacrament and worship amidst the pandemic

chapter 13|13 pages

“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

chapter 15|11 pages

Trusting in God's protection in the wake of COVID-19

An exegetical reading of Psalm 91

chapter 16|10 pages

Love in the time of corona

Case studies of theodicy during the COVID-19 pandemic

chapter 17|10 pages

The evangelical church's love affair with injustice (white supremacy)

A womanist study of mishpat during COVID-19

chapter 18|9 pages

The church and COVID-19 pandemic

Voices of Myanmar women clerics