Abstract
The coronavirus pandemic has raised important questions regarding the correct balance between religious freedom and public health. These questions have become increasingly difficult to address given the diverse reactions within the church to government-imposed restrictions on religious freedom such as limitations on public gatherings in places of worship. Nowhere has this diversity been more prevalent than within Pentecostalism. This article discusses the religious response to the pandemic in the United States within the Pentecostal Movement as gleaned through three sources: public statements, legal action, and other public activity. I suggest that Pentecostalism’s diversity in this area is consistent with its diversity in other areas, while also signaling the need for the Pentecostal Movement to develop a coherent theology of social-political engagement.
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Cantarero, Jonathan
(2023)
"Pentecostal Socio-Political Engagement and the Covid-19 Pandemic,"
Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology: Vol. 8:
No.
1, Article 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31380/2573-6345.1296
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