Convocation Workshop (online): Typhus, Plague, Covid-19: a theological perspective

Event time: 
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 11:00am
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For the past three years Dr. Benjamin Doolittle of the Yale Medical School and Dr. Mark Heim of Andover Newton Seminary at Yale have been team-teaching a course on theology and medicine. The course has covered topics from Hildegard of Bingen’s “slow medicine” to the strange immortality of cells from an African American woman named Henrietta Lacks that have fueled countless medical breakthroughs, from the HIV epidemic to the evidence that church attendance increases life expectancy,  to reflections on “the lost art of dying.”  The fall 2020 edition of this course is giving major attention to the reality that surrounds us all, the COVID 19 pandemic. We are considering how epidemics past have challenged—and changed—the practice of medicine and the practice of faith, and how this epidemic will impact both.”  (Register for this workshop)

This year all Convocation events are free of cost, but if you would like to make a charitable gift to Andover Newton, please visit our Ways to Give page.

Andover Newton alumni/ae are also invited to register for the full offering of convocation events from Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity School. Find the master calendar, as well as links to registration on the Yale Divinity School Convocation event page.