Christianity and COVID-19

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.

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 Aiavā

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