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Being Christian in Your Medical Practice by Dr. Jim Halla Pdf
Being a doctor and going to the doctor are theological issues. A major thesis of the book is that a de-medicalization of physicians is necessary and should be replaced by a Scripto-centric approach to life in the practice of medicine. This call is radical, humanly speaking, but we have a God Who has given much to us as Christian physicians and expects much of us. There is a biblical view of the practice of medicine, and it is the major avenue that patients have for reaching true comfort and help. Each physician must be able to articulate it and the book is written for that purpose. A rightly understood biblical view of medicine is the only way that doctors have for giving genuine hope to hurting people and for the advancement of God s kingdom.
Being Christian Your Medical Practice by Jim Halla Pdf
Being a doctor and going to the doctor are theological issues. A major thesis of the book is that a "de-medicalization" of physicians is necessary and should be replaced by a "Scripto-centric" approach to life in the practice of medicine. This call is radical, humanly speaking, but we have a God Who has given much to us as Christian physicians and expects much of us. There is a biblical view of the practice of medicine, and it is the major avenue that patients have for reaching true comfort and help. Each physician must be able to articulate it and the book is written for that purpose. A rightly understood biblical view of medicine is the only way that doctors have for giving genuine hope to hurting people and for the advancement of God's kingdom.
Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity by Gary B. Ferngren Pdf
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 succinct, thoughtful, well-written, and carefully argued assessment of Christian involvement with medical matters in the first five centuries of the common era . . . It is to Ferngren's credit that he has opened questions and explored them so astutely. This fine work looks forward as well as backward; it invites fuller reflection of the many senses in which medicine and religion intersect and merits wide readership."—Journal of the American Medical Association "In this superb work of historical and conceptual scholarship, Ferngren unfolds for the reader a cultural milieu of healing practices during the early centuries of Christianity."—Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith "Readable and widely researched . . . an important book for mission studies and American Catholic movements, the book posits the question of what can take its place in today's challenging religious culture."—Missiology: An International Review Gary B. Ferngren is a professor of history at Oregon State University and a professor of the history of medicine at First Moscow State Medical University. He is the author of Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction and the editor of Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction.
The Christian Counselor's Medical Desk Reference, 2nd Edition by Charles Hodges, Jr. Pdf
How do certain medical conditions impact counseling needs? Dr. Charles Hodges and a team of contributing physicians set out to answer some of those questions and offer solid biblical principles for counseling those with medical issues.
The Dangers of Christian Practice by Lauren F. Winner Pdf
Challenging the central place that "practices" have recently held in Christian theology, Lauren Winner explores the damages these practices have inflicted over the centuries Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner provocatively challenges the assumption that the church possesses a set of immaculate practices that will definitionally train Christians in virtue and that can't be answerable to their histories. Is there, for instance, an account of prayer that has anything useful to say about a slave-owning woman's praying for her slaves' obedience? Is there a robustly theological account of the Eucharist that connects the Eucharist's goods to the sacrament's central role in medieval Christian murder of Jews? Arguing that practices are deformed in ways that are characteristic of and intrinsic to the practices themselves, Winner proposes that the register in which Christians might best think about the Eucharist, prayer, and baptism is that of "damaged gift." Christians go on with these practices because, though blighted by sin, they remain gifts from God.
The Christian Virtues in Medical Practice by Edmund D. Pellegrino MD,David C. Thomasma Pdf
Christian health care professionals in our secular and pluralistic society often face uncertainty about the place religious faith holds in today's medical practice. Through an examination of a virtue-based ethics, this book proposes a theological view of medical ethics that helps the Christian physician reconcile faith, reason, and professional duty. Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma trace the history of virtue in moral thought, and they examine current debate about a virtue ethic's place in contemporary bioethics. Their proposal balances theological ethics, based on the virtues of faith, hope, and charity, with contemporary medical ethics, based on the principles of beneficence, justice, and autonomy. The result is a theory of clinical ethics that centers on the virtue of charity and is manifest in practical moral decisions. Using Christian bioethical principles, the authors address today's divisive issues in medicine. For health care providers and all those involved in the fields of ethics and religion, this volume shows how faith and reason can combine to create the best possible healing relationship between health care professional and patient.
Reclaiming the Body by Joel Shuman,Brian Volck MD Pdf
A doctor and a theologian explore the relationship between Christian faith and medicine, encouraging a more biblical view of health and health care by individuals and churches
Out of the Maze: A Covenantal View of Hope by Dr. Jim Halla Pdf
Everybody has hope in some form; but everybody needs true hope. Hope is universal and necessary for living well. Too often, people, including believers, function as if circumstances, feelings, and others control them. For the believer, biblical truth steps in and clarifies and simplifies living faithfully and hopefully. The Bible defines and offers true hope which never fails or disappoints. It is to the Bible that we must go. When we do we find God’s truth exploding across the pages of Scripture. Scripture defines true hope and contrasts and compares it to false hope. The believer will embrace these truths as a matter of life and death! Out of the Maze: A Covenantal View of Hope is designed to help you differentiate true and false hope, thus enabling you to live as a victor now and eternally.
From the day of his birth his grandfather was certain that Alessio Salsano would become a doctor. To become a physician was to reach the pinnacle of success, to achieve the ultimate goal. As soon as his tiny hands could hold on to things his father made sure he held books on science and medicine. Now, Dr. Salsano takes you on a journey through the life of a physician. Telling of his Italian heritage and upbringing as a child, he shares the details of establishing medicine as his career goal and his early search for life's meaning as he learned to embrace evangelical Christianity. This book chronicles medical school, falling in love, and the welding together of faith and science. It tells how Dr. Salsano came to reside in Virginia Beach where he started a private practice, and describes a personal revival of faith and how it impacted his practice of medicine. Revealing some of the most fascinating and trying times he has experienced in medicine, Dr. Salsano speaks to the medical student seeking this spiritually taxing career. Encouraging the reader with inspiring stories, he shows how combining science and faith in the everyday practice of medicine may be risky, but it is necessary to becoming a great doctor. It's a story of sacrifice, lawsuits, and testing of morals and ethics. Learn how one doctor nearly lost all confidence in his ability to help people, but fought the urge to flee, and stayed to fight. With God's help, he chose The High Calling.
Author : M. D. D. C. Lajoie, D. B. S. Publisher : Xulon Press Page : 224 pages File Size : 48,5 Mb Release : 2014-12-18 Category : Religion ISBN : 149842127X
A Christian and a doctor, the author saw a need for a guidebook for other Christian doctors to help merge their faith and their medical practice. Christian physicians have a hard time being evangelical about their faith within their professional lives. Patients of these Christian doctors are not sure how their faith is supposed to be considered in their medical treatment plan. Both doctors and patients have abandoned any mention of Christianity within medical offices. Every Christian doctor should be bold within and outside of the medical office thus, allowing Christian patients to share their beliefs with their doctor who shares the same faith. This book provides the reasons to do so from a Biblical standpoint, as well as from the more formal, evidence-based medicine that doctors are taught to rely on when making a medical decision. This guidebook shows how to incorporate Christianity into the medical office on all levels, ranging from office staff to treatment plans. It is also meant to be a guide for Christian patients who want their doctors to include their faith in their patient/doctor relationship. This book has been written to elevate the relationship shared by the doctor and patient. Both doctor and patient, being in Christ, have a crucial role and responsibility to each other in the doctor-patient relationship. This book is meant to expand the consciousness of the Christian medical community.
Author : James T. Stephens,Edward Le Roy Long Publisher : Unknown Page : 136 pages File Size : 52,9 Mb Release : 1960 Category : Religion ISBN : UOM:39015001647331
The Christian as a Doctor by James T. Stephens,Edward Le Roy Long Pdf
While the old-fashioned doctor had little trouble relating religion to his practice by means of pious behavior, the modern doctor is perplexed as to what difference religion makes in medical practice -- or what difference it ever did make. Like many moderns he finds religion, if he has it, something apart from life itself -- removed from occupational realities. He does not understand how Christian faith should affect the choice or conduct of an occupation. To let religion affect occupational decisions seems to many to be a dubious mixing of "religion and business," and pious behavior in a professional setting seems artificial and unreal. At many places in the following discussion it would seem that the Christian doctor does not differ from the non-believer in the everyday practice of his profession. The physician in this portrait is the modern informed man of good will. It is implied that he is a bit more perceptive of issues, more philosophical, more disciplined, more aware of how all actions are morally ambiguous, and alert to how pride destroys perspective. But in this book the Christian doctor is shown as shrinking from the claim that his faith distinguishes him from the agnostic or atheist in the practice of medicine. The image which emerges is one of a believing and perhaps even beloved physician whose characteristic disclaimer is like that of our Lord, "Why callest thou me good?" A Christian faith that can relate itself to modern life must speak the language of the new, modern doctor. It will not be heard if it urges a return to the expression of Christian piety that captured the public imagination in former years. The following is a "begin-where-you-are" approach which attempts to say: "There are spiritual dimensions to the doctor's job: sense them, cultivate them; deepen your insights as a physician, and you will find that you are not far from the Kingdom." Let no one suggest that the "Christian" depicted in these pages is a mildly convinced, ambivalent, inarticulate believer -- and yearn for a volume entitled "A Doctor Succeeds Through Prayer." This is an exploratory inductive study to lead readers into the fruitful pilgrimage of faith in contact with vocation itself which can result in a real synthesis of religion and life. It is offered in an earnest effort to help all physicians feel out the spiritual contours of their own vocation. - Preface.
