Panel: HOSPITALITY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE



1007.5 - VULNERABILITY, HOSPITALITY, AND HEALTHCARE ETHICS: COMPARATIVE REFLECTIONS

AUTHORS:
Goehring D. (Boston College ~ Chestnut Hill ~ United States of America)
Text:
This paper examines the interrelationship between vulnerability and hospitality within the context of comparative theological exchange. Beginning with Moyaert's consideration of Clooney's understanding of vulnerability within comparative theology, this paper will show that vulnerability offers the notion of considering comparative theology as an ethical methodology, and renders hospitality an ethical imperative as such. Examples from Christian and Islamic medical ethics will be used as illustrative cases to probe the ethical boundaries of comparative theology.