Spirituality & Healing

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Taught by JST. BODY, NATURE, HEALING AND SPIRITUALITY This course unfolds at the intersection of spirituality, medicine, issues of pastoral care and political theology. Utilizing a modified seminar format, the discourse brings together all different aspects that are involved in the process of healing. The discourse on healing in this seminar is guided by the insights of integrative medicine and feminist hermeneutics, eco-spirituality and social contexts. The theoretical analysis will be developed in close relationship with the experience at site visits and through encounters with experts in the dynamics of healing and health. The seminar works with the underlying thesis that any human vocation is born out of ones own healing and the call to participate in the healing of others. Consequently, the goal of the seminar will be to deepen our own vocation in understanding the multi-layered process of healing that connects human experience and academic research. It is a comprehension of healing that leads into the wholeness and holiness of life. The seminar will meet on campus, with the exception of one site visit to an urban farm and a day workshop at Commonweal, Bolinas, CA , (Friday of reading week). Because of the site-visit and workshop day: Last day of seminar will be May 10th, 2018. The course is primarily intended for advanced Students. [Faculty Consent required; 15 max enrollment; Auditors with faculty permission]