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Pandemic Reflections
Geoffrey Karabin
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Saint Francis and the Lepers Catch Up with COVID
出版Ethics International Press, 2023-11-25
主題Religion / Christianity / GeneralMedical / Infectious DiseasesSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN18044104979781804410493
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HxbcEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.