Theology and Global Health

Catalog description

Study of the historical and communal contexts and the theological ethics of challenges to global health such as health inequalities, poverty, social determinants of health, HIV/Aids and epidemic outbreaks. In dialogue with liberation theology “from below,” i.e., from the perspective of those who are poor, a study of central themes in Christian theology (e.g. Jesus Christ, Trinity, Church, Sacraments, Sin and Grace, Revelation), and their contribution to the promotion of global health. Health considered as a human right needed for human flourishing.