When God`s People Have HIV/AIDS An Approach to Ethics

includes index and biblioraphy

Constructing a Fundamental Ethics for an Age of HIV/AIDS Indicators of the Pandemic 1 Modes of Transmission 1 Changing Demographics 2 Consequencies for Development 8 Prevention, Treatment and Care 9 Foundational Issues behind the Pandemic: Gender Inequality and Poverty 11 The Roman Catholic Church and Tradition 14 Framework for a Theological Anthropology Needed in a Time of AIDS 17 Questions for Reflection and Discussion 18 Toward a Fundamental Theological Anthropology in This Age of AIDS 19 Suffering: Reality and Resistance 21 Reality Rooted in Experience 21 Resistance as Response to Suffering 23 Embeddedness in History and Society¿Historical Realism Listening and Seeing: Historical and Societal Levels of Poverty and Oppression 28 Naming the Locus for Transformative Engagement in History and Society 30 Active Engagement in Processes of Transformation 323. Embodied Relational Agent 35 Agent 35 Relationality 37 Life of the Body 38 History of the Body 3 8 Sources of Sexual Inequality in the Christian Church 39 Emotions and Voice 39 Sexual Bodies/Sexual Expressions of the Body 40 Questions for Reflection and Discussion 42 Virtues for a Time of AIDS 43 Hope 45 Fidelity 46 Self-Care 50 Justice 52 Prudence: Toward a Morally Creative Imagination 57 Questions for Reflection and Discussion 61 Discipleship: The Response of Spirituality and Morality in an Age of AIDS 63 Integrating Christian Spirituality and Christian Morality Six Elements of Discipleship 65 Obstacles to Discipleship 69 Questions for Reflection and Discussion 72 Memory, Narrative, and Solidarity 73 Memory 73 Narrative 75 Hospitality 76 Solidarity 78 Questions for Reflection and Discussion 82 Bearing Witness: Noerine Kaleeba and Paul Farmer Noerine Kaleeba: Hope in a Time of AIDS 84 Analysis 86 Paul Farmer: "We`re All Human Beings" 88 Analysis 89 Questions for Reflection and Discussion Conclusion: Now What? 95