Using the Covid-19 pandemic as fresh lenses to generate a thicker analysis of four research theories on discipleship within a Reformed congregation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15557333 |
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| Authors | Bachelard Kaze Yemtsa (Church of England, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 58-71 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Practical Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1756-073X • E-ISSN: 1756-0748 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1756073x.2021.1874647 |
| OpenAlex | W3121514098 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Tragedies can potentially betray some of our true colours. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a unique pastoral matrix and dynamic. This has had significant implications on the expression of congregants' identities and frames of meaning-making. The usually gathered congregation was disoriented, traumatised, as well as physically 'scattered' and 'disembedded' during the lockdown season. This dynamic has enabled me to have a fresh appreciation of my research into discipleship in a Reformed congregation, where I am the ordained minister. I had carried out a congregational study on evangelistic discipleship before the pandemic. I have used the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to reread four initial research assertions about discipleship: covenantal, gathered, vicarious, and pragmatic. This re-reading is anchored on five pastoral observations, regarding isolation, fellowship, gifts/ skills, prayer, and the human–Divine relationship. This revision of data analysis has re-clothed, nuanced and expanded my initial data interpretation. The ethnographic approach acted like a pair of fresh eyes and a critical friend. It has enabled me to reread ordinary identities in extraordinary circumstances
Aesthetics · Biology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Epistemology · Ethnography · Interpretation (philosophy · Isolation (microbiology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Pandemic · Prayer · Reading (process · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
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