(Ebook) Theology and HIV & AIDS in Latin America by Valburga Schmiedt Streck (Editor) ISBN 9788578433673, 857843367X

(Ebook) Theology and HIV & AIDS in Latin America by Valburga Schmiedt Streck (Editor) ISBN 9788578433673, 857843367X

Acknowledgments ..................................................................................... 7Preface ....................................................................................................... 9Rev. Dr. Olle KristensonForeword .................................................................................................. 13Rev. Dr. Gunilla HallonstenIntroduction ............................................................................................. 15Prof. Dr. Valburga Schmiedt StreckThe AIDS pandemic and the vulnerability of God .................................. 19Wanda DeifeltA reading of the Latin American theological reflections on HIV ............ 27Guillermo HansenDamage Reduction and theology – being a protagonist in new waysof seeing life and care in the light of the HIV/AIDS epidemic ............... 37Claudio Roberto KönigCare in pastoral assistance to HIV/AIDS patients ................................... 47Walter HoppeJonah, negative! and very exclusive! ....................................................... 57Sergio A. LópezA vulnerable woman made visible by Jesus ............................................ 71María Lis RivoiraThe “Western God” and the legitimation and reproduction of stigmaand discrimination associated with HIV and AIDS ................................. 77Andrés AlbaGrace as the form of the church on the basis of Saint Thomas Aquinas’thought. An ecclesiology for contexts of stigma, stigmatization anddiscrimination involving HIV and AIDS ................................................. 95Vicente Valenzuela OsorioGod’s liberating political affection and the complex world of AIDS .... 107Víctor Manuel MendozaThe theological touch of Jesus and the woman with the flow of blood .. 117Rosa María López PérezEmpowerment of women and ecclesial action: approach to a responseto HIV and AIDS in the Colombian context .......................................... 127Fabián Wilches GarcíaI keep on fighting, full of rebelliousness and life .................................. 139Sergio Ugalde MirandaNotes on the authors .............................................................................. 143