Vulnerability and Flourishing (CTS70)

When is vulnerability good, and when is it subject to manipulation and harm? How might flourishing be understood within Pope Francis’s push for integral human development, integral ecological conversion, and synodality, enabling an ethic of flourishing in church and society, rather than persistent vulnerability to abuse, harm, or re-traumatization? Essay contributors include:   JOHN SHEVELAND is professor of religious studies, Gonzaga University. He has servedon the National Review Board, an advisory body for the United States Conference ofCatholic Bishops. He received a master of arts in religion from Yale Divinity School and aPhD in systemic and comparative theology from Boston College. He is editor of Theology in a Post-Traumatic Church (Orbis, 2023). CRISTINA LLEDO GOMEZ is the Presentation Sisters Lecturer, BBI-The Australian Institute of Theological Education, and a Religion and Society Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University’s Public and Contextual Theology Research Centr