Abstract
Taking risks requires faith—faith that something good might come from the risk taken. For a communal ethic of “risk-sharing,” faithfulness is characterized not only by faith in God but also by faith in oneself and one’s neighbors. This is a type of faith that acts in concrete ways. In a communal ethic of “risk-sharing,” faith is “a way of living one’s life and of being responsible for the future of one’s sisters and brothers, conscious that history is not yet finished, that it must still be invented by everyone … This faith is rooted in the most immediate, most daily concerns.”3
The battle against HIV/AIDS would be strengthened if communities examined and modified ways of being-in-the-world that compromise human health and human flourishing.1
Now these things remain: faith, hope, and love.2
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Theodore W. Jennings, Jr., Good News to the Poor: John Wesley’s Evangelical Economics (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1990), 155.
John Wesley, “Serious Thoughts Occasioned by the Late Earthquake at Lisbon,” in The Works of John Wesley, ed. Thomas Jackson, vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1872; reprint. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2007), 11.
John Wesley, “On Visiting the Sick,” in The Works of John Wesley, ed. Thomas Jackson, vol. 7 (London: Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1872; reprint. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2007), 124.
See John Wesley, “The Use of Money,” in The Works of John Wesley, ed. Thomas Jackson, vol. 6 (London: Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1872; reprint. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2007), 124–136.
See John Wesley’s “Thoughts on the Present Scarcity of Provisions,” in The Works of John Wesley, ed. Thomas Jackson, vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1872; reprint. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2007), 53–58.
See Wesley’s famous tract Primitive Physic: An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases, 22nd edition (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2003).
Gilbert W. Stafford, “Holy Cow! Or Holy God; Holy Moses! Or Holy People; Holy Rollers! Or Holy Life,” sermon delivered November 27, 2007, Anderson School of Theology, Anderson, IN.
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Donald Messer, Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2004), 165.
Kelly Brown Douglas, Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999), 123.
Isabel Carter Heyward, The Redemption of God: A Theology of Mutual Relation (New York: University Press of America, 1982), 17. Emphasis Trentaz’s.
E. Brooks Holifield, Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition (New York: Crossroad, 1986), 20.
See Wesley’s sermon on “The Danger of Riches,” in The Works of John Wesley, ed. Thomas Jackson, vol. 7 (London: Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1872; reprint. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2007), 12.
Kathleen M. Sands, Escape From Paradise: Evil and Tragedy in Feminist Theology (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1994), 88.
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Trentaz, C.R.E.H. (2012). Risk of a Different Kind: “Risk-Sharing” Through Faith, Hope, and Love. In: Theology in the Age of Global AIDS & HIV. Palgrave Macmillan’s Content and Context in Theological Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272904_12
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