COVID in Nursing Homes: A Call to Repentance
This essay details the author’s experiences as a medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Richmond, Virginia, the first nursing home to have a COVID-19 outbreak in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It explores how the deaths of his patients challenged his faith and raised i...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2023
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In: |
Interpretation
Year: 2023, Volume: 77, Issue: 3, Pages: 265-271 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
COVID-19 (Disease)
/ Theodicy
/ Nursing home
/ Regret
/ Pandemic
/ Intercession
/ Bible. Lukasevangelium 13,1-5
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IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history |
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Summary: | This essay details the author’s experiences as a medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Richmond, Virginia, the first nursing home to have a COVID-19 outbreak in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It explores how the deaths of his patients challenged his faith and raised issues of theodicy. Ultimately, the author does not ask for an explanation of evil, but urges us to examine our culpability and our responsibility, then listen to Jesus’s call to repentance (Luke 13:1–5). In the end, our light, as weak as it is, must persist in the darkness. |
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ISSN: | 2159-340X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Interpretation
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/00209643231167132 |