The War Against Covid-19 and Body Theology: A Relational Response.

We are at the beginning of a lifelong relationship with COVID-19, according to epidemiologists.[86] Throughout 2019 and 2020, COVID-19 has profoundly impacted human bodies and social-ecological systems. Battle and war imagery also lacks the ethical imagination relevant for so many people experiencing COVID-19 and other diseases. 88 Heike Peckruhn, Meaning in Our Bodies: Sensory Experience as Constructive Theological Imagination (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 26. 89 John Paul II, The Redemption of the Body, and the Sacramentality of Marriage: Theology of the Body (The Vatican: Catholic Primer, 2006), 272. People who treated the body politic as gently as their own body would be worthy to govern the commonwealth.[152] Experiences of body surrender and new metaphors for COVID-19 bring shared vulnerability to light. [Extracted from the article]