A Theological Approach to Vulnerability

This book explores the symbols of vulnerability, narratives of vulnerability, and ethical norms of vulnerability in the Bible. Focusing on the great Tradition of the Churchfrom Stoic and Neoplatonic influence to the Moral Systemsand the approach to the Second Vatican Council, the volume helps to comprehend, deepen and clarify the concept of vulnerability. As a theory, it addresses the construction of ethics of vulnerability, its characteristics, the fundamental categories it should include. Reinforced by An Interdisciplinary Approach to Vulnerability: Towards a Humane Ethics (Vol I), written by the same author, this book hopes to lead the discourse of Christian ethics towards a better understanding and ultimately build towards a greater integration of the vulnerability of the human being.

Appropriates the category of human vulnerability as the anthropological foundation of Christian morality Approaches human vulnerability with a transdisciplinary dialogue on its fundamental importance for humane ethics First to propose a systematization of the category of human vulnerability for future development in Christian ethics

Autorentext

Carolina Montero Orphanopoulos is a Chilean PhD (STD) in Moral Theology and Master in Bioethics from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid, where she was awarded the acknowledgement of the best doctoral dissertation in the 2019-2021 academic period. By vocation and by training her theological and ethical reasoning and teaching are informed by dialogue with other disciplines (e.g., theology, bioethics, philosophy, and psychology). ****She is currently academic researcher at the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez (Santiago, Chile) and her lines of research are the Ethics of Vulnerability, Emotions and Ethical Deliberation, and Global Bioethics. She has recently been awarded a scholarship at Birmingham University, England, for the Psychology Cross Training Program for Theologians (2023-2025). In 2024 the Spanish version of this book was awarded the distinction of the Centessimus Annus Pro Pontifice Award International Prize for Economy and Society, Vatican City.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Vulnerability in Sacred Scripture.- Chapter 2. Vulnerability in Tradition.- Chapter 3. Vulnerability in the Magisterium.- Chapter 4. Towards an Ethics of Vulnerability.