Pandemic Reflections
Author | : Geoffrey Karabin |
Publisher | : Ethics International Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2023-11-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781804410493 |
ISBN-13 | : 1804410497 |
Rating | : 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
St Francis of Assisi, one of the most acclaimed and enduring of saints, is particularly significant when reflecting upon the COVID pandemic. Francis lived, and ministered, amid a leprosy pandemic. How he lived in relation to that pandemic makes him a source of insight to as well as a potential critic of contemporary responses to COVID. In turn, one can use COVID to question Francis. Did he exhibit a harmful form of religious devotion, perhaps fanaticism, by exposing himself and others to a lethal pathogen? This edited collection examines a highly visible and impactful religious figure with the intent of bringing him into conversation with one of the defining issues of the early 21st Century.