Medicine as Friendship with God

Authors

M. Therese Lysaught, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Presentation

Language

eng

Publication Date

10-15-2011

Source Publication

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities

Abstract

Over the past thirty years, a variety of proposals have been put forward for seeking connections between liturgy and ethics. This session will explore the claim that the sacrament of anointing of the sick—a particular Christian liturgical practice--informs the ethics of medicine by providing a theological hermeneutic—a theologically robust vision for interpreting medicine rooted in a theological politics. As such, the sacrament of anointing provides a theological politics for medicine rather than, simply speaking, a theological ethics.

Comments

Presented at Bioethics and Christian Theology Affinity Group, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, Minneapolis, MN, October 15, 2011.

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Recommended Citation

Lysaught, M. Therese, "Medicine as Friendship with God" (2011). Theology Faculty Research and Publications. 64.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theo_fac/64