COVID-19 Shows the Need to Make Church More Flexible
The COVID-19 challenge is unprecedented. It has caused enormous trauma, disrupted economies, social life, mass transportation, work and employment, supply chains, leisure, sport, international relations, academic programmes; literally everything. Churches and religious communities have not been spar...
| Published in: | Transformation |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2020
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| In: |
Transformation
Year: 2020, Volume: 37, Issue: 4, Pages: 266-275 |
| RelBib Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history RC Liturgy RJ Mission; missiology ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Church B Covid-19 B Pandemic B Mission (international law |
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| Summary: | The COVID-19 challenge is unprecedented. It has caused enormous trauma, disrupted economies, social life, mass transportation, work and employment, supply chains, leisure, sport, international relations, academic programmes; literally everything. Churches and religious communities have not been spared; they have been severely affected and, in all likelihood, permanently transformed by the pandemic. The pre-COVID-19 world is gone, replaced by a ‘new normal’. The new landscape calls for both resilience and adaptation, embracing new ways of doing things and of being church. Churches have to adapt; they have to ask themselves questions about the implications for being church in this ‘new normal’ context. This article aims to explore the impact of the coronavirus on the mission and theology of the church. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8931 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Transformation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0265378820963156 |