UMA COMPREENSÃO MISSIOLÓGICA DA COVID-19

Abstract

The novel coronavirus pandemic forced Christian church around the world to revisit their fundamental self-understanding and activities. Through ethnographic lenses, the researchers analyze reactions and adaptations in face of covid-19 by religious leaders from Southern California, USA. Having one of the authors as an observant-participant, the article includes a case study of the Seventh-day Adventist Glendale City Church (GCC). Based on the concept of intersectionality, a theoretical framework to understand how one’s identities and experiences combined produce advantages and disadvantages, the article proposes the primacy of the epistemic logic of love, according to 1 Corinthians 13. As per this scenario, what would be an appropriate missiological understanding of covid-19? 1 Doutor e Mestre em Educação pela Harvard University; Mestre em Escrituras Hebraicas e Arqueologia pela Andrews University; Bacharel em Teologia pelo Antillean College; Professor no Fuller Theological Seminary. E-mail: ramirez-johnson@fuller.edu 2 Doutor em Religião (Estudos Interculturais e Missiologia) pela Andrews University; MBA pela La Sierra University; Bacharel em Teologia pelo Centro Universitário Adventista de São Paulo e em Administração e Teologia pelo Union College; Professor no Centro Universitário Adventista de São Paulo. E-mail: marcelo.dias@unasp.edu.br