The doctor facing illness and death
"A door to the invisible"
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This article by Dr Claude Hiffler examines the relationship between medicine, illness and death from an Orthodox theological perspective. Drawing on both medical reflection and spiritual meditation, it confronts the limits of scientific medicine — silent on the meaning of events — with a Christian anthropology grounded in the fall, the denaturation of man and the rupture with God as the origin of evil and suffering. The author develops a preventive and therapeutic conception integrating asceticism, listening to the patient, rediscovering the body as a temple of the Spirit, and spiritual combat. He also addresses end-of-life ethical questions, including euthanasia. The contribution of the article lies in the articulation between contemporary medical data and patristic tradition, proposing a medicine of the person rooted in mercy and the theology of the image.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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