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Healing in the history of Christianity /
Amanda Porterfield offers a survey of ideas, rituals, & experiences of healing as Christian history. She chronicles changes in healing beliefs & practices through the centuries & considers recent findings about the biological effects of belief.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The resurrected body
- Religious healing as experience and practice
- Scientific approaches to hope and healing
- Ancient theories of natural healing
- The placebo concept and its limitations
- Healing in relation to the person of Christ
- Jesus, exorcist and healer
- The problem of miracles
- The centrality of miracles in Mark
- The Jewish background of Jesus' life and work
- Exorcism at the core of Jesus' healing work
- Healing in early Christianity
- Imperial context
- Christian nursing
- Healing as victory over evil
- Baptism
- Paul on human embodiment of Christ
- Healing as counterweight to philosophical idealism
- Early Christian medicine
- Healing in medieval Christianity
- Healing powers of saints
- The superiority of Christian miracles
- Orthodox medicine and philanthropy
- Icons as agents of healing
- Healing in the context of monastic life
- Penance as a form of healing
- Baptism as protective seal
- Exorcism
- The Eucharist
- Exploring human suffering
- Healing in early modern Christianity
- Condemnations of the cult of saints and their healing powers
- Modernizing the cure of souls
- "Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought"
- Catholic reforms
- Healthcare and hospitals
- Early modern medicine
- The modernization of Christian healing
- Healing in western Christianity's global expansion
- The politicization of Christian healing
- New indigenous forms of Christian healing
- Missionary influence in American Indian religious movements
- Revolutionary impact in China
- Spiritual in Africa
- Healing as reconciliation
- Christianity and the global development of scientific medicine
- Medical missions
- Scientific medicine in missionary outreach
- Medical missions in Africa
- Medical science and colonialism
- Medical missions in China
- Religious and scientific healing in the context of political change
- Christian healing in the shadow of modern technology and science
- The power of prayer
- Electricity as a way of thinking about spiritual power
- Sources and development of Wesley's thought
- Sources of Pentecostal healing
- Sister Aimee
- Pentecostal healing as a global phenomenon
- Spiritualist influences
- Catholic devotion to miracles in the age of science
- Christian healing as response to suffering.