GLOBAL CRISIS AND GLOBAL JUSTICE: SOME THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
GLOBAL CRISIS AND GLOBAL JUSTICE: SOME THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS

Summary/Abstract: On 1 April of this year, the philosopher John Gray wrote in the New Statesman that the current health crisis will be a “turning point in history.” He went on to diagnose how “the virus has exposed fatal weaknesses in the economic systems that was patched up after the 2008 financial crisis.” We can’t have just one country like China producing all the protective equipment we need anymore. Cheap air travel has been instrumental in the spread of the virus. Chinese wet markets may have to be reconsidered. “Liberal Capitalism is bust,” he added. Therefore, the fall of what he calls “hyper-globalisation” is clear; the future is also clear as far as he can predict: “when the economy restarts, it will be in a world where governments act to curb the global market.” But the economically liberal eye in the world does not seem to want to see the effect of this crisis. The liberal, he reminded us, aims at raising material living standards instead of fostering community cohesion and asking questions about social and political legitimacy.

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