Author: Fred Rosner
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780765761026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud includes many items dealing with the field of Jewish medical ethics and serves as an important tool for those who wish to read about or research medical and related topics as found in traditional biblical and talmudic sources.".
Author: Gary B. Ferngren
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2016-08
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1421420066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on New Testament studies and recent scholarship on the expansion of the Christian church, Gary B. Ferngren presents a comprehensive historical account of medicine and medical philanthropy in the first five centuries of the Christian era. Ferngren first describes how early Christians understood disease. He examines the relationship of early Christian medicine to the natural and supernatural modes of healing found in the Bible. Despite biblical accounts of demonic possession and miraculous healing, Ferngren argues that early Christians generally accepted naturalistic assumptions about disease and cared for the sick with medical knowledge gleaned from the Greeks and Romans. Ferngren also explores the origins of medical philanthropy in the early Christian church. Rather than viewing illness as punishment for sins, early Christians believed that the sick deserved both medical assistance and compassion. Even as they were being persecuted, Christians cared for the sick within and outside of their community. Their long experience in medical charity led to the creation of the first hospitals, a singular Christian contribution to health care. "A succinct, thoughtful, well-written, and carefully argued assessment of Christian involvement with medical matters in the first five centuries of the common era . . . It is to Ferngren's credit that he has opened questions and explored them so astutely. This fine work looks forward as well as backward; it invites fuller reflection of the many senses in which medicine and religion intersect and merits wide readership."—Journal of the American Medical Association "In this superb work of historical and conceptual scholarship, Ferngren unfolds for the reader a cultural milieu of healing practices during the early centuries of Christianity."—Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith "Readable and widely researched . . . an important book for mission studies and American Catholic movements, the book posits the question of what can take its place in today's challenging religious culture."—Missiology: An International Review Gary B. Ferngren is a professor of history at Oregon State University and a professor of the history of medicine at First Moscow State Medical University. He is the author of Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction and the editor of Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction.
Author: Paul Offit
Publisher:
Published: 2015-03-10
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0465082963
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Jesus said, “Suffer the children,” faith healing is not what he had in mind
Author: Joel James Shuman
Publisher: Brazos Press
Published: 2006-02
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1587431270
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A doctor and a theologian explore the relationship between Christian faith and medicine, encouraging a more biblical view of health and health care by individuals and churches
Author: Alan W. Fowler
Publisher:
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780952911449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Allen Verhey
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2003-12-11
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780802822635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author of such major books as Remembering Jesus: Christian Community, Scripture, and the Moral Life, Allen Verhey has become one of today's most trusted Christian voices in contemporary ethics, including the moral challenges that new medical technologies pose to Christian faith and decision-making. With this new book Verhey brings the biblical tradition to bear on contemporary bioethical concerns. Drawing on an unmatched depth of insight in these two realms, Verhey explores how the Bible can illuminate and guide medical ethics. He argues that churches are called to think and speak clearly about bioethical concerns, and he lays out here the scriptural tools for them to do so. After firmly grounding Christian ethical discourse in Scripture, Verhey shows how the Bible can be applied to such pressing questions as suffering, genetic intervention, abortion, reproductive technologies, end-of-life care, physician-assisted suicide, and more. Filled with faith-based wisdom and apt illustrations of the moral dilemmas discussed, this book is a must-read for Christians grappling with the ethical dimensions of medicine today.
Author: Robert Benjamin Greenblatt
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13:
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Publisher: Paternoster Publishing
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13:
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