A Theological Approach to Vulnerability

Carolina Montero Orphanopoulos is a Chilean PhD (STD) in Moral Theology and Master in Bioethics from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid, where she was awarded the acknowledgement of the best doctoral dissertation in the 2019-2021 academic period. By vocation and by training her theological and ethical reasoning and teaching are informed by dialogue with other disciplines (e.g., theology, bioethics, philosophy, and psychology). She is currently academic researcher at the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez (Santiago, Chile) and her lines of research are the Ethics of Vulnerability, Emotions and Ethical Deliberation, and Global Bioethics. She has recently been awarded a scholarship at Birmingham University, England, for the Psychology Cross Training Program for Theologians (2023-2025). In 2024 the Spanish version of this book was awarded the distinction of the Centessimus Annus Pro Pontifice Award International Prize for Economy and Society, Vatican City.