https://www.socictopen.socict.org/files/original/f8b2770cf62bd4874cfd16f92c648b0c.pdf a25e04c32fe47413b829f314c316cb47 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coronavirus Description An account of the resource Dominio científico: Coronavirus Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The church and the indispensability and fragility of morality revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource D. Etienne de Villiers Description An account of the resource In this article the view that the Covid-19 pandemic – especially the lockdown that went hand in hand with it – revealed both the indispensability and fragility of morality was substantiated and the response of the church to the moral challenges posed by the pandemic discussed. Findings were based on information gained from South African media regarding the pandemic and the response to it in the South African context interpreted with the assistance of research in academic publications. Various respects in which the pandemic underlined the indispensability of morality were discussed first. This was followed by a discussion of ways in which the pandemic also demonstrated the fragility of morality. The fragility of morality was traced back to the undermining influence of modern life on morality. Finally, the mixed record of South African churches in providing guidance on the moral challenges the Covid-19 pandemic posed, was noted. It was pointed out that the challenge remains to the church to provide moral guidance on life after the pandemic. The church would also have to effectively deal with the challenge to overcome the curtailment of its ability to provide such moral guidance in contemporary modern societies. Contribution: The contribution of the article lies in identifying the moral issues posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and in gauging the response of the church in the South African context to these issues. The challenges that remain to the church to also after the pandemic provide moral guidance and overcome obstacles in providing such guidance were also highlighted. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Subject The topic of the resource covid-19 pandemic, Church, Morality, Flourishing, Economic Inequality, modern culture, alternative lifestyle, fragility of morality, indispensability of morality Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 10.4102/hts.v76i1.6180 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available AOSIS Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Practical Theology, The Bible