Christ’s Love in the Midst of Pandemic: Moving the World toward an Economy of Life

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed vividly the pandemic of economic inequality, the pandemic of racism, and the pandemic of climate catastrophe. This article explores what it means to manifest Christ’s love, moving the world, in the midst of these pandemics. It begins by recalling firm faith claims...

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1. VerfasserIn: Moe-Lobeda, Cynthia D. 1954- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: The ecumenical review
Jahr: 2020, Band: 72, Heft: 4, Seiten: 553-568
IxTheo Notationen:KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit
NBF Christologie
NCC Sozialethik
weitere Schlagwörter:B Christ’s love
B Pandemics
B Covid-19
B economic inequality
B climate catastrophe
B Racism
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Zusammenfassung:The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed vividly the pandemic of economic inequality, the pandemic of racism, and the pandemic of climate catastrophe. This article explores what it means to manifest Christ’s love, moving the world, in the midst of these pandemics. It begins by recalling firm faith claims on which to build a response, moving on to “reading” the context of these four pandemics, noting five signs of the times as guides for discerning how to respond. It concludes with four suggestions regarding gospel-grounded response: (1) seeking to address one of these pandemics without deep attention to the others is dangerous; (2) the four pandemics converge in a holy call to economic restructuring; (3) the movement toward a moral economy is not an impossible dream; and (4) religion, including the World Council of Churches, has a crucial role to play. They are suggestions, in other words, about the form of Christ’s love moving the world in the midst of these pandemics.
ISSN:1758-6623
Enthält:Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/erev.12552