03/07/2026 15:00
- 19:30
HALL: Pola - A101
Chair:
Leal M.
Contact:
Oviedo L.
In recent times, medicine and theology have become very distant and alien fields. Even among those committed to dialogue between science and theology, the medical sciences and healthcare have remained outside their area of interest. The question arises as to whether this distance or disengagement is beneficial, or whether interaction and even synergy could be more beneficial. Assuming that modern medicine and healthcare have developed within a secularising model, an alternative approach could be to recognise that medicine without religion is less effective, and that theology ignoring the pursuit of health and better therapy might be missing some relevant issues. Recent research on religion and health, religious coping, and spiritual care suggests new ways to integrate the two social systems of medicine and religion more effectively. This awareness calls on theology to take on a responsible role in discerning and designing models of positive interaction and even intervention, for instance in the field of spiritual care. This panel brings together scholars who, from an interdisciplinary perspective, are exploring and applying ways to integrate medicine and healthcare with religion and theology, with particular attention to those efforts aimed to better develop interventions in the area of spiritual care.
