Ebook: Theology and HIV & AIDS in Latin America

Acknowledgments ..................................................................................... 7
Preface ....................................................................................................... 9
Rev. Dr. Olle Kristenson
Foreword .................................................................................................. 13
Rev. Dr. Gunilla Hallonsten
Introduction ............................................................................................. 15
Prof. Dr. Valburga Schmiedt Streck
The AIDS pandemic and the vulnerability of God .................................. 19
Wanda Deifelt
A reading of the Latin American theological reflections on HIV ............ 27
Guillermo Hansen
Damage Reduction and theology – being a protagonist in new ways
of seeing life and care in the light of the HIV/AIDS epidemic ............... 37
Claudio Roberto König
Care in pastoral assistance to HIV/AIDS patients ................................... 47
Walter Hoppe
Jonah, negative! and very exclusive! ....................................................... 57
Sergio A. López
A vulnerable woman made visible by Jesus ............................................ 71
María Lis Rivoira
The “Western God” and the legitimation and reproduction of stigma
and discrimination associated with HIV and AIDS ................................. 77
Andrés Alba
Grace as the form of the church on the basis of Saint Thomas Aquinas’
thought. An ecclesiology for contexts of stigma, stigmatization and
discrimination involving HIV and AIDS ................................................. 95
Vicente Valenzuela Osorio
God’s liberating political affection and the complex world of AIDS .... 107
Víctor Manuel Mendoza
The theological touch of Jesus and the woman with the flow of blood .. 117
Rosa María López Pérez
Empowerment of women and ecclesial action: approach to a response
to HIV and AIDS in the Colombian context .......................................... 127
Fabián Wilches García
I keep on fighting, full of rebelliousness and life .................................. 139
Sergio Ugalde Miranda
Notes on the authors .............................................................................. 143