Topical issue of Open Theology 2021, edited by Jason Alvis, Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, and Michael Staudigl
Faith in a Crisis: What Theological and Phenomenological Resources can Teach us in the COVID-19 Pandemic (Editorial) Jason W. Alvis, Michael Staudigl, Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
Section 1. Reasons for, and Critiques of Irrationality in the Pandemic
The Twin Crises of Covid-19 and Racism: Pragmatic Mastery, Theory, Religion, and Ethics Michael D. Barber
Subjectivity in the Age of Pandemics James Mensch
Political Theology and COVID-19: Agamben’s Critique of Science as a New “Pandemic Religion” Guillermo Andrés Duque Silva, Cristina Del Prado Higuera
Section 2. Responses to, and Faith Resources for Coping with the Pandemic
How to Reasonably Wait for the End of the World: Aquinas and Heidegger on the Letters to the Thessalonians Mirela Oliva
Navigating the Stay-at-Home Order with Benedictine Stability Emil Salim
Section 3. Rethinking Faith and Belonging in the Pandemic
Ecclesial Belonging in a World of Pure Experience: William James, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Religious Rationality in Crisis Walter Scott Stepanenko
Enervating the Divine: Seeking New Intuitions about God from a Time of Pandemic Andrew Oberg