Gute Nachbarn unterstützen sich gegenseitig. Dieses Verständnis und das Verbindende
zwischen Medizin und Theologie, die in ihrer Gesamtheit der Heilung dienen, lebte
der Arzt und Professor für Neurologie Dieter Janz mit Überzeugung an seiner Abteilung
am Klinikum Charlottenburg. Anlässlich seines 5. Todestages am 1. Weihnachtstag 2021
beleuchtet der Theologe Gregor Etzelmüller, was Medizin und Theologie voneinander
lernen können.
Abstract
Because physical and psychological processes cannot be separated, there is a nexus
between medicine and theology. In the early church, theologians were widely medically
educated; the author of the third gospel was considered as a physician. In the modern
age, against the background of the differentiation between medicine and religion,
which must be affirmed, one can search for life-promoting forms of their coupling.
Pastoral care can learn from medicine to take the embodiment of the human being seriously
– and medicine can let theology open up perspectives of hope for itself. Medicine
and theology unite the interest in life-promoting transfigurations in the body.
Schlüsselwörter
Medizin - Theologie - Religion - Transfiguration - Verklärung - Epilepsie
Key words
medicine - theology - religion - transfiguration - transfiguration - epilepsy
