Healing to all their flesh : Jewish and Christian perspectives on spirituality, theology, and health /

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Healing to All Their Flesh asks us to step back and carefully rethink the relationship between religion and health. It does so by examining overlooked issues of theology and meaning that lie at the foundation of religion's supposed beneficial function. Is a religion-health relationship consiste...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Levin, Jeffrey S., Meador, Keith G.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: West Conshohocken, Pa. : Templeton Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Health > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Health > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Healing > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Healing > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Aging > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Aging > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Guérison > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Guérison > Aspect religieux > Judaïsme.
Vieillissement > Aspect religieux > Judaïsme.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Rabbi Samuel E. Karff
  • Prologue : the intersection of spirituality, theology, and health / Jeff Levin
  • pt. I. Jewish perspectives. ch. 1. Cure and healing, where God met science : four decades of spiritual progress / William Cutter
  • ch. 2. Contemplating a theology of healthy aging / Richard Address
  • ch. 3. Dwindling or grateful : toward a resilient old age / Dayle A. Friedman
  • ch. 4. Using Jewish law to respond to contemporary issues in bioethics / Elliot N. Dorff
  • ch. 5. Give me your hand : exploring Judaism's approach to the relationship of spirit and health / Simkha Y. Weintraub
  • pt. II. Christian perspectives. ch. 6. St. Thomas Aquinas and the end(s) of religion, spirtuality, and health / Warren Kinghorn
  • ch. 7. Beguiling religion : the bifurcations and biopolitics of spirituality and medicine / M. Therese Lysaught
  • ch. 8. The ontological generality in spirituality and health / Stephen G. Post
  • ch. 9. From health to shalom : why the religion and health debate needs Jesus / John Swinton
  • ch. 10. Suffering presence : twenty-five years later / Stanley Hauerwas
  • Epilogue : theology and health : challenges and possibilities / Keith G. Meador.

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