[The life-enhancing nexus between medicine and theology]

Because physical and psychological processes cannot be separated, there is a nexus between medicine and theology. In the early church, theologians were widely medically educated; the author of the third gospel was considered as a physician. In the modern age, against the background of the differentiation between medicine and religion, which must be affirmed, one can search for life-promoting forms of their coupling. Pastoral care can learn from medicine to take the embodiment of the human being seriously - and medicine can let theology open up perspectives of hope for itself. Medicine and theology unite the interest in life-promoting transfigurations in the body.