The pandemic and the resulting lockdowns and travel restrictions have compelled us all to change our behaviour, and quickly.
We are at the outer limits of our current wisdom. As the church, we must dig deeper.
The UK government at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis warned that “the virus does not discriminate”, but it quickly became apparent that that wasn’t strictly true.
How are we to produce good narratives which speak into the wider world and which are both scientifically and theologically well-informed?
ECLAS has launched a new seven-part blog series on theological and scientific narrative approaches to coronavirus, titled ‘Making Sense of Coronavirus with Reason and Faith’.
Theology excels at asking about the impact of stories on our lives and, often more important, the impact of our stories on the lives of others.
Arguably, as Pope Benedict XVI suggested, in their dealings with Galileo, Church authorities were showing a very modern sensitivity to the relationships between science and society.