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.

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• Part 1 Faith Making Sense of Suffering1 A Critical Examination of how some Questionable Perspectives are Revealed within Chinese Christian Reactions to the COVID-19 PandemicTsung-I Hwang2 Covid-19: A Reflection from Indigenous Peoples’ LifewayAtola Longkumer3 Perceptions of COVID-19 in a Sample of Female Clergy: Implications for Theological Understandings of SufferingAnisah Bagasra, Alison Mc Letchie and Robin Dease4 The Word of God and the Covid-19: Intercultural Reading of Job’s Questions to GodNicoletta Gatti and Alexander Salakpi5 The Holy Spirit, Human Suffering and Healing: An Initial Pentecostal ReflectionWonsuk Ma6 COVID-19, the Question of Evils, Human Freedom and Divine AttributesCyril Ejike7 Asking God Tough Questions: The Use of Interrogatives in Habakkuk’s First ChapterMay Young8 Martin Luther’s Understanding of Righteousness and its Implications and Challenges to COVID-19Jayabalan Murthy9 Who Tweeted "Mene Mene Tekel Parsin"?: COVID-19, Twitter and Apocalyptic LiteratureWesley Magruder10 COVID-19 and Human SufferingAugustine Chingwala MusopolePart 2 Faith Taking Action11 Pacific Christianity Online or On The Line?: Renewing Church, Sacrament and Worship amidst the PandemicFaafetai Aiavā12 Liberation after COVID-19—(Re)Building Hope for Older and Disabled People beyond the Global Hegemonies of "Youth" and "Growth"Francis Davis13 "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 AfricaNadine Bowers Du Toit and Craig Stewart 14 Theology and Ethics of Pastoral Accompaniment for Patients with COVID-19 in the Context of Physical DistancingTelesia K. Musili and Edith K. Chamwama 15 Trusting in God’s Protection in the Wake of COVID-19: An Exegetical Reading of Psalm 91Joseph Otoo Ayeh and George Ossom-Batsa16 Love in the Time of Corona: Case Studies of Theodicy During the COVID-19 PandemicGangri "Philip" Gobu 17 The Evangelical Church’s Love Affair with Injustice (White Supremacy): A Womanist Study of Mishpat during COVID-19CL Nash and Esther Mombo18 The Church and COVID-19 Pandemic: Voices of Myanmar Women ClericsNaw Eh Tar Gay19 Reflections on an Ecological Conversion of Catholic Spirituality TodayElisabeth Steffens