Review essay: When the dancing turned to mourning: Theological responses to the pandemic

Authors: Birch, Jonathan C.P.

Source: Theology in Scotland

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: https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v28i1.2186

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This review essay considers four books published within the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It guides us through how each of these texts offers a timely Christian response to, and not explanation for, the challenges that we face: innumerable deaths, the inability to worship together, deserted streets and shut-up businesses, the place of viruses in the Earth’s ecology, and the apparent absence of God as the innovations of modern science seem to be our only salvation.

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Birch, J. 2021, 'Review essay: When the dancing turned to mourning: Theological responses to the pandemic', Theology in Scotland, 2021, 28(1), pp. 62-80. https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v28i1.2186

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v28i1.2186

Repository URI: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/251081/