‘This is a Call of God … or is it?’: Narratives about Humans, God and Eschatology in the Dutch Reformed Pietist Community during the COVID-19 Outbreak
Abstract In this study, we examine which narratives were put forward by key figures of the Dutch reformed pietist community during the COVID -19 pandemic. We analyse sermons and news articles from the period March–November 2020. We find, as expected, a dominant narrative of COVID -19 as God’s judgment, a calling to repentance and an event which emphasizes the need for prayer. Although the pandemic was seen as a call by God, the systematic origin of the virus (God/Satan/natural phenomena) remained rather ambiguous. More often it was stated that ‘everything falls under His providence’. The earth... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Journal of Empirical Theology ; volume 34, issue 2, page 169-187 ; ISSN 0922-2936 1570-9256 |
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Brill
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Schlagwörter: | Religious studies / Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
Sprache: | unknown |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27031891 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15709256-12341424 |