Convergence Education of Medicine and Theology in a Secular Age

Abstract

Convergenceeducationofmedicineandtheology(CEMT)isaneffectivereligiouseducation learningmodelinasecularage. Thehighlyelaboraterationalityofthesecularenvironmentencourage es dialogical discourse between science and religion. There is a mutually reinforcing relationship between medicine and theology even given each discipline’s differences from the other. In this paper, the dialogical discourse between medicine and theology about the human-genome project serves as an example of the symbiotic relevance of both disciplines. The Ebola virus shows how theological discourse can be included in what is apparently a medical concern to ultimately benefit medical efforts. An example of CEMT in the classroom shows the possibilities for enlarging the conventional horizons of religious education to overlap medicine.