Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity

Name: Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity
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ISBN: 9780801891427

ISBN-10: 0801891426

ISBN-13: 9780801891427

Edition: 2009

Authors: Gary B. Ferngren, G. B. Ferngren

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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 next…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 6/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments



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


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index