Searching for Public Health Theology

Abstract

A proposal for a public theology of health aims to dialogue between theological anthropology and medical anthropology in order to increase the perception of health, not only as a fact, but also as a value.  Even in a secular state, religious traditions have hermeneutical health in interpreting the phenomena of illness and death with distinct religious reasons.  Such hermeneutics could be sometimes conflicting and sometimes cooperatives with practice and Health Sciences. In this case, the theological task aims to expand a health hermeneutics in civil society, in a critical reissue of the relation between religion and health for the common good of the population such as for example, the issue of health. Therefore, Kos school combines the mythical wisdom of Asclepiades and Ionia science. Health Myths named in the Hippocratic Oath belong to the tradition of Greek poetic theology. This reference indicates a kind of credo in which the Hippocratic medicine professes. The doctor as well as a professional expert is also someone who have faith in life and carries the hope priest's office. Also is relevant here how the Greek health theology was received by Christian theology, and how both deconstructed their theodicies. In this reception, there is a way to think a public theology health.