Title: Pandemic Reflections
Subtitle: Saint Francis and the Lepers Catch Up with COVID
Subject Classification:  Religion and Faith, COVID-19, Society and Culture  
BIC Classification: HRC, MJCJ, JF
BISAC Classification: REL010000, REL028000, REL012110
Binding: Hardback, Paperback, eBook
Publication date: 27 Sep 2023
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80441-048-6
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80441-049-3
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-80441-411-8

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Description

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.

Biography

Author(s):  Geoffrey Karabin is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Neumann University, Pennsylvania, USA.

Reviews

"These timely essays help us, who strive to live by Franciscan values, do more than ponder our role in a world of easy sickness. What are we called to do? What does it mean to be responsible to God, ourselves, and others? I’m thankful for these writers."
—Jon M. Sweeney, editor of The Complete Francis of Assisi and author of Feed the Wolf