Making theology in times of pandemic: attention to the signs of the times

• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalves, Paulo Sérgio Lopes
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/ephata.2021.9787

Our goal in this article is to analyze "how" theology is done in times of global pandemic, caused by the new coronavirus, which has infected countless people in the world, leaving them sick and a good number dying. There were also psychological, economic, social, cultural, political and religious impacts that bring to light loss of meaning in the very modus vivendi of humanum on the planet. In turn, in its condition of scientia Dei, theology gives a sense orientation to human beings and seeks the meaning of the world-nature. Therefore, there is an urgent need to raise a fundamental question: how does theology become present as contemporary world theology at this time of pandemic? To answer this question, we will start from the theology of the "signs of the times" evoked at the Second Vatican Council, and then present principles of structuring theology so that we can then visualize the theological repercussions on the question of God, the human being, the nature world and Christianity as a religion of love.