‘The wrath of God on children of disobedience’: COVID-19 in the theology and ideology of the Westboro Baptist Church

The arrival of pandemic diseases (of which COVID-19 is the latest, but not likely to be the last) could be understood, along with impending ecological disaster and global warming, to be the major existential threats envisioned by, and facing, our contemporary culture. This article focuses on the use...

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Main Author: Östling, Erik (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2021
In: Approaching religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 82-97
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Westboro Baptist Church / COVID-19 (Disease) / Pandemic / Wrath / Calvinism / Sermon / Geschichte 2020
IxTheo Classification:CH Christianity and Society
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBQ North America
KDG Free church
NBA Dogmatics
RE Homiletics
Further subjects:B Theology
B Covid-19
B Westboro Baptist Church
B Sermons; Themes
B Ideology
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