Mouton, ElnaConradie, Ernst M.Pillay, Miranda N.Faculty of Religion and Theology - see Faculty of Arts2013-10-112024-04-022008/11/272008/11/272013-10-112024-04-022008https://hdl.handle.net/10566/10129Doctor Theologiae - DThHIV and AIDS present challenges to the well-being of individuals and to public health proportions unpresedented in modern history, and stigma has been identified as the single most contributor to the spread of the HI-virus. While the challenges presented by the AIDS pandemic are scientific and medical, it also has a psychological, legal,  economic, social, ethical and religious impact on those infected and affected. The underlying question in this thesis is not whether the church should respond to this urgent societal challenge, but how it ought to respond. To explore this question, the thesis investigated how a New Testament text (as primary resource), particularly Luke's Gospel, could be a resource for shaping/sharpening the church's response to the pandemic.enAIDS (Disease)Religious aspectsHIV (Virusses)StigmaThesisUniversity of the Western Cape