Bonhoeffer’s sermon on Overcoming Fear has prompted this special issue in a year when COVD19 has stalked the world and claimed millions of lives. Faith as a response to fear is a documented fact but it is also a theological concept in the Jewish and Christian traditions. An international array of scholars delves the polyphonic meaning and significance of fear in contemporary society, biblical and post biblical texts, the mission field, human evolution and society in Fear and Faith.