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- Title
COVID-19 AND CREATION: MEGAPHONES, MYSTERY AND LAMENT.
- Authors
Lloyd, Stephen
- Abstract
This article surveys four Christian responses to the coronavirus crisis of 2020. The main focus is on the different ways the authors attempt to reconcile God's goodness with the suffering caused by this pandemic. The implications for our understanding of origins that result from the authors' various responses are also considered. Three recurring themes (judgment, mystery and lament) are examined in more detail before discussing Noah's flood as a helpful model to frame a biblical response to the crisis. The article highlights the difficult choices we have to make in apologetics: to attribute natural evil to human sin requires the timescale of evolutionary history to be rejected.
- Subjects
GOODNESS of God; SUFFERING &; religion; COVID-19 pandemic; JUDGMENT of God; MYSTERY; NOAH'S ark; GOOD &; evil in religion; SIN
- Publication
Foundations: An International Journal of Evangelical Theology, 2021, Issue 80, p34
- ISSN
0144-378X
- Publication type
Article