Theological forum: Deaf people and persons with disabilities are our 'kapwa': a response to Fratelli tutti / Kristine Meneses. Compassion in a time of pandemic / Juan José Tamayo Acosta -- Climate change, COVID-19, and gender justice: sin and redemption in the Anthropocene / Hilda P. Koster -- Part 2. Glocal and interdisciplinary perspectives on COVID-19: COVID-19 in Africa and the violence of prejudices in Western representations / Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula -- COVID-19 and the need for a social-economic transformation of economy and society / Johannes Wallacher -- Inequalities and bioethics in public health during COVID-19: an Australian perspective / Daniel J. Fleming -- Part 3. Theological reflections on COVID-19: Pestilence, sword and famine: Biblical reflections on the pandemic / Philippe Lefebvre -- Life-affirming theology in the time of COVID-19: anti-violence feminist theology when anti-Asian hate kills us / Keun-Joo Christine Pae -- Politicization of race in the time of COVID-19: theologising human vision for the future / Stan Chu Ilo -- Can corona virus (also) be a turning-point for the way we worship? / Martin Stuflesser -- Social service (diakonia) and care: a patristic reflection from Peru / Raúl Domingo Pariamachi Fonseca -- Theological forum: Fratelli tutti's message for contemporary religious life / Michael Czerny -- Deaf people and persons with disabilities are our 'kapwa': a response to Fratelli tutti / Kristine Meneses.
Summary:
"COVID-19 was globally recognized as a pandemic in the first quarter of 2020. As a life-threatening illness that is brought on by a new Coronavirus and its far-reaching implications at individual and collective levels, we venture to add that very few among us, which includes not only humans but also our ecosystem, have remained unscathed by it. What differentiates the impact that we have experienced is perhaps the degree of loss of life, health as well as livelihood, the familiar and overall human security. We are cognizant that no single special or thematic journal issue may offer deliberations that would faithfully and adequately address the breadth of political, economic, biomedical, ecological, philosophical, scientific and socio-cultural - and within a Christian framework - ontological, ethical, ecclesiastical, and theological shifts that are impacted by COVID-19. But we humbly offer this issue as our contribution to the ongoing global discourse and add our voices and praxis as interlocutors with the aim of engendering a humility and resilience borne from the recognition that we are so profoundly interconnected with each other and the ecosystem at large."--Page 7.
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