Toward an Adventist Theology of Health (Part 9) — A Necessary Medical Metanoia
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February 11, 2021
In this column I will return to a subject I first discussed in a series of columns beginning in 2015. In those previous articles I tried to articulate an Adventist Theology of Health that takes into account not only the internal theological vision of our community but also the external socio-cultural context in which we are called to articulate our message on health. The internal vision and the external context are both dynamic realities. They require not only application, loyalty and coherence, but also a high level of cultural awareness, flexibility, self-criticism, creativity and the capacity of re-orienting the whole system in question. This is what I will label: the need of a medical-cultural “Metanoia”.[1]