TY - GEN digital ID - 131909543 TI - World Christianity and Covid-19 : Looking Back and Looking Forward PY - 2023 SN - 9783031125706 9783031125690 9783031125713 9783031125720 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Religious studies KW - Bible KW - Christian theology KW - Christian religion KW - Sociology of religion KW - Sociology KW - bijbelstudie KW - religie KW - sociologie KW - theologie KW - christendom KW - godsdienst UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131909543 AB - 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. . ER -