Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2-2020
Abstract
In the history of Christian thought, suffering has frequently been conceptualized as a process of “refinement.” Suffering “refined” believers and religious communities by (painfully) stripping away the unnecessary, as well as by revealing and perfecting the core dimensions of religious practice.
Recommended Citation
Lomperis, Ekaterina, "The Pedagogical Refinement of Covid-19" (2020). Faculty Publications - Portland Seminary. 171.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/gfes/171
Comments
Originally published in Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion in June 2020