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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: "See, Choose, Act" -- Introduction -- An Apocalyptic Pandemic -- "I Can't Breathe" -- Seeing, Choosing, Acting -- Conclusion and Chapter Outline -- Part I: Faith Trouble -- Chapter 2: A Test Case for the Theodicy Problem -- Introduction -- From Lisbon to Auschwitz -- Sources of Suffering -- Posing the Theodicy Problem -- Six Influential Responses to Theodicy Questions -- An Inconclusive Postscript -- Chapter 3: Lament in the City -- Introduction -- Christian Faith in New York |
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Research Methodology -- Case Studies -- Crossroads Christian Center -- The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Chapel of Hope -- All Nations Church-House of Restoration -- Epiphany Mar Thoma Church -- Themes -- Pastoral Care -- Lament -- Community -- Technology -- Worship -- Finance -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Faith in the International Order -- Introduction -- COVID-19 and the Failure of the International Order -- The Populist and Neo-Fascist Ascendancy -- The Soul of Internationalism -- Chapter 5: Punisher, Healer, or Sufferer? -- Introduction -- On Being a Targeted Group |
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Korean Immigrants in Argentina -- Chinos: What Is Behind the Name? -- COVID-19 and Racial Minorities -- God, the Pandemic, and the Others -- Korean Protestant Churches in Argentina -- Regardless of What Happens in the World, We Keep Our Faith in God -- An Integrated Theological Response to Marginalization -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Disaster Socialism -- Introduction -- Introducing Disaster Capitalism -- Disaster Capitalism and COVID-19 -- Churches and Capitalism -- North American Mainline Church Responses to COVID-19 -- Making Connections Between Crisis, Needs and Chronic Inequalities |
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Disaster Capitalism and Church Finance During COVID-19 -- Church Finance and COVID-19: Congregational Case Studies -- Conclusion -- Part II: Unveiling and Naming Distortions -- Chapter 7: Weaponization of Faith -- Introduction -- In Durham -- COVID-19 and White Christian Nationalism -- Indigenous Peoples of the United States: A Case Study -- Decolonizing Our Communities -- Toward Shalom: An Ethic of Care -- Care in the Time of COVID-19 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Anti-black Racism -- Introduction -- What Is Black Faith? -- Black Faith and Irrationality -- Black Faith and Suffering |
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Black Faith and the Presence of God in Suffering -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Anthropocentric and White Supremacist Notions of God -- Introduction -- COVID-19 and Systemic Inequalities -- Creation Renews Itself -- God in Human Terms -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10: Lockdown and Sexual Exploitation -- Introduction -- The Home, Love, and Safety -- The Home Turned into a Dungeon of Robbers -- The Home as an Unsafe Space -- Chapter 11: Online Sexualization -- Introduction -- The Philippines as the "Global Epicenter" of OSEC -- Children as Victims of Imperialism and Global Capitalism |
| Summary |
This volume explores how Christians around the world have made sense of the meaning of suffering in the context of and post-COVID-19. It interrogates the question of God, suffering, and structural injustice. Further, it discusses the Christian response to the compounded threats of racial injustice, climate injustice, wildlife injustice, gender injustice, economic injustice, political injustice, unjust in the distributions of the vaccine and future challenges in the post-COVID-19 era. The contributions are authored by scholars, students, activists and clergy from various fields of inquiry and church traditions. The volume seeks to deepen Christian understanding of the meaning of suffering in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the fresh ways the pandemic can contribute to reconceptualizing human relations and specifically, what it means to be human in the context of suffering, the place of or justifications of God in suffering, human place in creation, and the role of the church in re-articulating the theological meanings and praxes of suffering for today. Chammah J. Kaunda is Assistant Professor of World Christianity and Mission Studies at the United Graduate School of Theology, Yonsei University, Korean Republic. He is also an Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, and a Research Fellow for the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research. |
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Print version record |
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COVID-19 (Disease) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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COVID-19 (Disease) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kaunda, Chammah (Chammah J.), editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031125706 |
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3031125703 |
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