World Christianity and Covid-19

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.

• 1. Introduction: Faith Facing Suffering, Faith Looking Forward.- 2. From Lisbon to Auschwitz and from Wuhan to Cape Town: Covid-19 as a Test Case for the Theodicy Problem.- 3. Who is the Body? Weaponization of Faith during COVID-19.- 4. Psalms of Lament as Response to Suffering in the context of Korean Lament Psalms to express Han.- 5. “Where is Your God?”: A Pastoral Reflection on Theodicy, the Black Experience, and COVID-19.- 6. Punisher, Healer, or Sufferer? Toward a Theological Response to Marginalization in times of Covid-19 Pandemic.- 7. Faith in Internationalism: COVID-19 and the International Order.- 8. The Purpose of the Book of Job and its Implications on Malawi’s Covid-19 Situation.- 9. Silence as a means of prayer in suffering: Reading Lamentations from the context of Kerala Pentecostalism in the Context of COVID-19.- 10. Lament in The City.- 11. Interpreting Covid-19 Epidemics in Light of Old Testament: An Attempt to Define Humanity’s Response to Suffering.- 12. MakingSense of Suffering in The Midst of COVID 19: A Reflection on Psalm 88.-13. COVID 19 Disrupts and Upends Tradition and Everyday Life: The Case of Death Rituals in Africa.- 14. COVID-19 and Prosperity Preaching in Ghana: Intercultural and Pragmatic Reading of the Debate between Job and his Friends.- 15. Praying With Each Other During Holy Infected Week – COVID19 and The Possibilities of Our Resurrection.- 16. Worship and Suffering in the Kingdom of God: A Trinitarian Ecclesiology for Holistic Mission.- 17.  Salo-Salo Sa Hapag: Filipino Family Eucharist a Response On COVID-19 Pandemic.- 18. The Sanctuary of the Home? Covid-19, Lockdown and Expendability of Girls.-19. Covid - 19 and Suffering: A Pastoral and Theological Response.- 20. COVID-19 and the challenge to anthropocentric and white supremacist notions of God.- 21. Covid-19 as a Wake-Up Call Related to Animal Suffering.- 22. Covid-19 - When Human Suffering Aligns with a Concern for the Environment:  A Pentecostal Marian Reflection.- 23. Disaster Socialism? U.S. Ecclesial Economic Practices in the Time of COVID-19.- 24.  The Spiritual Challenge of Covid-19.