THEOLOGY LECTURE
Responsibility for the Broken Body: Responding to the Physical Word of the Soul
Wednesday, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:00 PM –
1:00 PM
(Pacific Time)
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Join us on February 1 for a lunchtime public lecture by Dr. Ashley Moyse, who is Regent College's Post-Doctoral Fellow in Science and Theology. All are welcome to come to Room 100, bring a lunch, and enjoy the lecture and following Q & A.
This lecture takes its cue from Jeffery Bishop’s The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying (Notre Dame, 2011), which concluded with the question: ‘Might it not be that only theology can save medicine?”
Accordingly, the lecture responds to this question, in part, and serves as an invitation to those engaged in the practice of medicine to respond to the presence of the human body. This invitation goads us to attend to the theological significance of the human body.
Dr. Moyse will resource such concern with his reading of Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth’s relational anthropology, in which we discover a particular responsibility toward the body and soul of the Other. Subsequently, Dr. Moyse will propose that a complementary anthropology might benefit medicine. Yet the aim is not to pursue a theological intervention that colonizes medicine. Rather, the aim here is to proclaim the theological such that the physician, for example, might learn to encounter her patient in the fullness of his being and by a posture of responsibility grounded by love.
Location
Room 100
Parking
Paid parking is available at Regent College
