Is the Body of Christ HIV Positive: New Ecclesiological Christologies in the Context of HIV Positive Communities

The book that is before you expresses the key concepts that the World Council of Churches has articulated in promoting churches' engagement with HIV. HIV-competent churches, the desire of the World Council of Churches, can only be realized when churches. Critically, churches have to embrace the full implications of 1 Corinthians 12:26 and its emphasis on being one body in the context of HIV: "If one part suffers, every part suffers with it..."