Faith in the Great Physician
Faith in the Great Physician

Author: Heather D. Curtis

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2007-11-30

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1421402017

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This history of evangelical faith healing in nineteenth-century America examines the nation’s shifting attitudes about sickness, suffering, and health. Faith in the Great Physician tells the story of how participants in the divine healing movement transformed the ways Americans coped with physical affliction and pursued bodily wellbeing. Heather D. Curtis offers critical reflection on the theological, cultural, and social forces that come into play when one questions the purpose of suffering and the possibility of healing. Belief in divine healing ran counter to a deep-seated Christian ethic that linked physical suffering with spiritual holiness. By engaging in devotional disciplines and participating in social reform efforts, proponents of faith cure embraced a model of spiritual experience that endorsed active service, rather than passive endurance, as the proper Christian response to illness and pain. Emphasizing the centrality of religious practices to the enterprise of divine healing, Curtis sheds light on the relationship among Christian faith, medical science, and the changing meanings of suffering and healing in American culture. Recipient of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History for 2007

Jesus the Great Physician
Jesus the Great Physician

Author: Walter Hannay

Publisher:

Published: 2019-02

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781912522484

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Everyone needs a Doctor at some time, even if it is just to sign a death certificate! This book is written with a view of Jesus Christ as not only a Physician but the greatest Physician who ever lived. Thirty-seven miracles are recorded in the Gospels and as Mary Fairchild says: "None were performed randomly, for amusement or for show. Each was accompanied by a message and either met a serious human need or confirmed Christ`s identity and authority as the Son of God". Having been a Doctor for over forty years, I have viewed the healing miracles of the Lord Jesus in the gospels under medical categories as seen from a modern classification of disease. Not every miracle is therefore included - only those I see in a category of disease or medical specialty. I have added some relevant thoughts at times relevant to the miracle. The review is limited to the four Gospels although in the first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, the Physician Luke tells us that in his Gospel he recorded the things that Jesus "began both to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up" (verses 1-2) to Heaven. He thus infers that Jesus is still doing and teaching through His Apostles in the book of Acts. Two of these are mentioned briefly in the book. The chapters have been arranged in chronological order rather in order of any perceived importance.

Jesus, M.D.
Jesus, M.D.

Author: David Stevens

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0310234336

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Through the eyes of a modern medical missionary, who observes and notes everything from Christ's bedside manner to his diagnostic expertise, readers can understand Jesus in ways they have never considered Him before. Readers can experience the tension, risks, and awesome wonder of what God accomplishes in the midst of brokenness and seemingly impossible circumstances.

Musings of a Christian Physician on the Physical and Spiritual Healing of Man
Musings of a Christian Physician on the Physical and Spiritual Healing of Man

Author: Joseph DeMay MD FAAP

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2020-05-27

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1973691086

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I had always believed in the healing power of our Lord, and viewed my life as one of service to Him via the practice of medicine. But, in retrospect, I had a deeper trust in the power of modern medicine and science than I did in Jesus Christ and His fully accomplished work on the Cross. My thinking was flawed, but, as I grew in my walk with the Lord and meditated on Scripture more fully, I began to see the superiority of faith over the limited interventions modern medical science had to offer, and that this interplay between faith and science was not mutually exclusive, but complimentary, for the spiritual aspects of our lives illuminate and empower the carnal aspects of intellect and physical senses. I began jotting notes to myself related to this interplay of faith and healing and science, and just filed them away...for years. IThen, in December of 2017, a baby was born to a first time mother of mine, his little body riddled with the most fulminant form of acute lymphoblasic leukemia, almost always fatal. His absolutely miraculous healing was the impetus to start putting these thoughts into writing, in the form of weekday morning emails entitled “A Christian Doctor’s View of Healing, Faiith, and Science”. It was soon made clear to me that these writings were to take the form of a year long devotional book, comprised of short weekday messages that are intimately linked, such that they can be read through as a book. And that book was to paint a picture, and that picture was to be of a face, and the face was to be that of Jesus, for He is the source of all healing

The Great Physician
The Great Physician

Author: Richard Dombroff M.D.

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2016-09-29

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1512752894

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The world breaks everyone, but in the end some are stronger at all the broken places Ernest Hemingway Successor to the finest tradition of Hemingway and Tom Wolfe, come along with a brilliant new American author, one of the most prominent plastic surgeons of his time, as he plumbs life from cruising altitude to crush depth. Dubbed a world-class medical prodigy by the media of the day, he explores the darkness and traverses the ugliness and pain of all the broken places, discovering healing, renewal, and the daylight of restoration. Much more than a high-powered cosmetic surgeons Trump Tower tell-all, this is one of the most inspiring and spiritually exhilarating memoirs of our generation. A revolutionary Christian manifesto for a broken world, an explosive Pilgrims Progress for Generation Next, chronicling a modern prodigal son lost in a far country, wasting his substance in riotous living. An elitist, Ivy-covered, modern-day pilgrim who rises rocket fast, spiraling downward to crash and burn, and, finally, in abysmal desperation, finding timeless redemption, the Promised Land, and, ultimately, the only real hope for humankind: the Eternal Anchor for the Soul. It is the spellbinding journey the world has been waiting to hear for nearly four decades. The ultimate millennial playbook for success, healing, and hope that can change your life forever. No matter what you are going through today, you will turn the last page emboldened and ennobled, knowing in your heart that somehow it has been written just for you, sensing that life need never be the same.

The Language of God
The Language of God

Author: Francis Collins

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-09-04

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1847396151

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Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God. How does he reconcile the seemingly unreconcilable? In THE LANGUAGE OF GOD he explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes the reader on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry and biology -- indeed, reason itself -- are not incompatible with belief. His book is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: why are we here? How did we get here? And what does life mean?

Faith in the Great Physician
Faith in the Great Physician

Author: Heather D. Curtis

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2007-11-30

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0801886864

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Recipient of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History for 2007 Faith in the Great Physician tells the story of how participants in the evangelical divine healing movement of the late nineteenth century transformed the ways Americans coped with physical affliction and pursued bodily health. Examining the politics of sickness, health, and healing during this period, Heather D. Curtis encourages critical reflection on the theological, cultural, and social forces that come into play when one questions the purpose of suffering and the possibility of healing. Curtis finds that advocates of divine healing worked to revise a deep-seated Christian ethic that linked physical suffering with spiritual holiness. By engaging in devotional disciplines and participating in social reform efforts, proponents of faith cure embraced a model of spiritual experience that endorsed active service, rather than passive endurance, as the proper Christian response to illness and pain. Emphasizing the centrality of religious practices to the enterprise of divine healing, Curtis sheds light on the relationship among Christian faith, medical science, and the changing meanings of suffering and healing in American culture.

Doctors who Followed Christ
Doctors who Followed Christ

Author: Dan Graves

Publisher: Kregel Publications

Published:

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780825494697

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Examines the lives and accomplishments of thirty-two physicians from throughout history whose Christian faith has influenced their work.