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This book would be of great interest to any Christian physician or health-care professional who is interested in learning more about medicine at the time of Christ and its impact on Christianity and, perhaps more importantly, Christianity's impact on the care of the ill.
7 Ιαν 2022 · Methods and approaches -- The Christian reception of Greek medicine -- Early Christian views of the etiology of disease -- Christianity as a religion of healing -- The basis of Christian medical philanthropy -- Health care in the early church -- Some concluding observations
23 Δεκ 2009 · Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity is a succinct, thoughtful, well-written, and carefully argued assessment of Christian involvement with medical matters in the first 5 centuries of the common era.
This book provides an account of Christian healing and medical philanthropy during the first five centuries of the Christian era. Its author, Gary B. Ferngren, is a historian at Oregon State
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...
1 Αυγ 2016 · This is an important book, for students of Christian theology who understand health and healing to be topics of theological interest, and for health care practitioners who seek a historical perspective on the development of the ethos of their vocation.
Here Ferngren analyses the Christian idea of philanthropy and its relation to medicine and health care systems. The author derives the origins of the idea of Christian philanthropy, compassion and charity from the concept of imago dei, which states that all human beings are living images of God.
