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Theology and the arts: The Corona crisis

Author(s) -

John Bell

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

theology in scotland

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1465-2862

DOI - 10.15664/tis.v28i1.2182

Subject(s) - lament , humanity , the arts , theology , power (physics) , reflection (computer programming) , covid-19 , face (sociological concept) , sociology , aesthetics , task (project management) , philosophy , visual arts , art , computer science , social science , management , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language , medicine , physics , disease , pathology , quantum mechanics , economics

Seeking to offer more than just words of comfort in the face of suffering, this paper proposes three additional ways forward for theological reflection during the COVID-19 pandemic: (1) a rediscovery of the language of lament, drawing on the vocabularies of protest movements and the Psalms; (2) a theological critique of the pandemic built on reckoning with the reality of our finitude and the relationship between humanity and the earth; and (3) a re-imagination of the future employing the power of the arts and the imagination for this prophetic task.

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