Santé et maladie, totalité et salut. Perspectives anthropologiques, psychothérapiques et théologiques. Paul Tillich – Viktor E. Frankl – Nancy L. Eiesland

Abstract

This paper deals with the question of how health and illness as well as wholeness and salvation are interrelated. In a first step, it is shown on the basis of Paul Tillich that the human being is to be understood as a dynamic entity and that illness and health are to be understood as dynamic processes. Based on Viktor E. Frankl's concept of "homo patiens" it is then shown in a second step that man can still find meaning despite illness. Finally, in a last step, Nancy L. Eiesland's concept of the "disabled God" is used to show that Christianity has a symbol that makes it clear that "wholeness" and thus salvation is not necessarily linked to physical integrity.