Science-based medicine as well as contemporary theology both lack a doctrine of the ill person. In dialogue with die medical anthropology of Viktor von Weizsäcker theology could discover the fact that human dependence on the body is indeed a gift. It is important for medicine to discern what the body wants to say in and through a disease. However, in contrast to the meaningfulness of disease discovered by von Weizsäcker, theology also has to stress that illess can lack any meaning. Illness can not only reveal a salutory truth about our lives, but can also cause a sorrow of the soul which leads to death.
Enthalten in:
Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik; 2009/3 Kommentare, Studien, Berichte, Dokumentationen, Diskussionen, Rezensionen, Bibliographie
(2009)
Serie / Reihe: Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik
Personen: Etzelmüller, Gregor
Etzelmüller, Gregor:
¬Der¬ kranke Mensch als Thema theologischer Anthropologie : die Herausforderung der Theologie durch die anthropologische Medizin Viktor von Weizsäckers / von Gregor Etzelmüller, 2009. - S.163-176 - (Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik)
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