Christian Global Health in Perspective
Christian Global Health in Perspective

Author: Rebecca Meyer

Publisher: William Carey Publishing

Published: 2024-04-02

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1645085651

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Healing the Nations. Restoring Shalom. The world is grappling with complex health challenges and disparities, forcing us to confront many pressing questions. How do Christians understand and practice healthcare? What is the biblical view of health and healing? This workbook unravels these queries, offering deep insights into the Christian approach to global health issues. Christian Global Health in Perspective delves into the biblical foundations of health, historical perspectives of Christian medical missions, and strategies for integrating faith with modern healthcare. Health is wholeness in body, mind, and spirit. The authors, seasoned experts in theology and medicine, guide readers through an exploration of how the church can innovatively respond to current global health concerns. This resource is essential for healthcare professionals, church leaders, development workers, and anyone interested in the intersection of faith and health. Reading this book may result in a paradigm shift for some who view remission of disease as the sole focus for healing, when from a biblical perspective, wholeness and shalom form the basis for promoting health. Christian Global Health invites you to join this transformative mission, where faith and healthcare converge for global well-being.

The Christian Perspective on Mental Health
The Christian Perspective on Mental Health

Author: Dr. Paul McDowell

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2016-10-31

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 1524647659

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This book is to challenge and change the thinking of many to that of wanting to do more for those that are mentally ill. There seems to be a problem with the Christian community doing more for those that are mentally ill instead of just feeding those that are on the street ever so often. There is a need for more training for ministers and lay people of the churches, and there must be a bridging of the gap between the mental-health professionals and the Christian community.

Psychology in Christian Perspective
Psychology in Christian Perspective

Author: Harold Faw

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 1995-06

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0801020123

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Following the standard progression of introductory study, the chapters of this book identify and discuss issues in tension between faith and psychology. Faw suggests that Christian perspectives bring needed diversity to the study of mind and behavior.

Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity
Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity

Author: Gary B. Ferngren

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0801895227

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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 Theology of Health
A Theology of Health

Author: Tyler J. VanderWeele

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

Published: 2024-09-15

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0268208328

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While the health of the body can be defined by its functioning parts and systems, the health of the person is more complex. To flourish, we need to understand health in the context of God’s intent. A Theology of Health presents a Christian understanding of the very concept of health, both the health of the body and the health of the person. Preeminent scholar Tyler J. VanderWeele argues that health can be understood as wholeness as intended by God and that sin—whether individual wrongdoing, societal injustice, or the fallenness of creation—causes ill health. VanderWeele explains that restoration and fulfillment of health is salvation, pointed toward in the life of Jesus Christ, to be lived out through the work of the Church, and for which we await final completion. VanderWeele also demonstrates the broader relevance and implications of his insights to all who seek to understand health, well-being, and the ultimate ends of human life. A Theology of Health is an essential theological exploration that seeks to promote health, healing, and flourishing of the whole person.

The Christian Woman's Complete Guide to Health
The Christian Woman's Complete Guide to Health

Author: Scott Farhart

Publisher: Charisma Media

Published: 2012-10-08

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1599797992

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DIVWhen it comes to caring for their bodies, women want to know that the advice they get is medically sound AND in line with their values and their faith. This groundbreaking new reference offers guidance readers can trust as two Christian obstetrician/gynec/div

Natural Health Remedies
Natural Health Remedies

Author: Janet C. Maccaro

Publisher: Charisma Media

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1629986046

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It's time to empower, restore, strengthen, and heal all of you!

Faith-Based Health Justice
Faith-Based Health Justice

Author: Ville Päivänsalo

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1506465439

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In Faith-Based Health Justice, a stellar assembly of scholars mines critical insights into the promotion of health justice across Christian and Islamic faith traditions and beyond. Contributors to the volume consider what health justice might mean today, if developed in accordance with faith traditions whose commandment to care for the poor, ill, and marginalized lies at the core of their theology. And what kind of transformation of both faith traditions and public policies would be needed in the face of the health justice challenges in our turbulent time? Contributors to the volume come from a wide range of backgrounds, and the result will be of interest to scholars and students in social ethics, development studies, global theology, interreligious studies, and global health as well as experts, practitioners, and policy-makers in health and development work.

Religious Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Health
Religious Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Health

Author: Joseph Tham

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-04-26

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 3319718495

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This book discuss the meaning and implications of the social and ethical implications of the notion of social responsibility in healthcare in six major world religions — Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, & Judaism. This collection of papers is based on a four-day workshop where bioethics experts from various religious traditions gathered. They discussed the ways in which their respective traditions could, or could not, uphold the tenets of Article 14 of UNESCO's Universal Declaration of bioethics and Human Rights. The different papers presented in this book are based on this interchange of ideas at the workshop. The book explores the potential points of convergence among the various perspectives presented, as well as a discussion on the ways in which their moral differences may be managed. The managing of these moral differences through international socio-ethical mechanisms, contributes significantly to the UNESCO Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights’ goal of simultaneously respecting religio-cultural pluralism while upholding a commitment to human rights.

Principles of Health Care Ethics
Principles of Health Care Ethics

Author: Richard Edmund Ashcroft

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-08-12

Total Pages: 1538

ISBN-13: 1119184827

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Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and healthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide for their work in medical ethics, Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition is a standard resource for students, professionals, and academics wishing to understand current and future issues in healthcare ethics. With a distinguished international panel of contributors working at the leading edge of academia, this volume presents a comprehensive guide to the field, with state of the art introductions to the wide range of topics in modern healthcare ethics, from consent to human rights, from utilitarianism to feminism, from the doctor-patient relationship to xenotransplantation. This volume is the Second Edition of the highly successful work edited by Professor Raanan Gillon, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at Imperial College London and former editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, the leading journal in this field. Developments from the First Edition include: The focus on ‘Four Principles Method’ is relaxed to cover more different methods in health care ethics. More material on new medical technologies is included, the coverage of issues on the doctor/patient relationship is expanded, and material on ethics and public health is brought together into a new section.