Drawing Hope: The Bible in Times of Corona

The Corona pandemic has a deep impact on the human and social sphere, and also on the church. Thomas Söding, New Testament scholar in Bochum, and Aleksandra Brand, research associate at his chair, gather biblical scholarly voices around the globe. The contributions explore the questions: What helpful horizons does the reading of biblical texts open up for the Corona period? What concrete perspectives for action arise from this for listeners of the biblical message? The thirteen contributors all show in their own way how biblical texts reject any prophecy of the end of the world in a time- and ideology-critical way in order to draw hope and gain strength for overcoming the crisis.