Christian Global Health In Perspective

Author : Rebecca Meyer
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645085669

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Healing the Nations. Restoring Shalom. The world is grappling with complex health challenges and disparities, forcing us to confront many pressing questions. How do Christians understand and practice healthcare? What is the biblical view of health and healing? This workbook unravels these queries, offering deep insights into the Christian approach to global health issues. Christian Global Health in Perspective delves into the biblical foundations of health, historical perspectives of Christian medical missions, and strategies for integrating faith with modern healthcare. Health is wholeness in body, mind, and spirit. The authors, seasoned experts in theology and medicine, guide readers through an exploration of how the church can innovatively respond to current global health concerns. This resource is essential for healthcare professionals, church leaders, development workers, and anyone interested in the intersection of faith and health. Reading this book may result in a paradigm shift for some who view remission of disease as the sole focus for healing, when from a biblical perspective, wholeness and shalom form the basis for promoting health. Christian Global Health invites you to join this transformative mission, where faith and healthcare converge for global well-being.

Author : Rebecca Meyer
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645085652

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Healing the Nations. Restoring Shalom. The world is grappling with complex health challenges and disparities, forcing us to confront many pressing questions. How do Christians understand and practice healthcare? What is the biblical view of health and healing? This workbook unravels these queries, offering deep insights into the Christian approach to global health issues. Christian Global Health in Perspective delves into the biblical foundations of health, historical perspectives of Christian medical missions, and strategies for integrating faith with modern healthcare. Health is wholeness in body, mind, and spirit. The authors, seasoned experts in theology and medicine, guide readers through an exploration of how the church can innovatively respond to current global health concerns. This resource is essential for healthcare professionals, church leaders, development workers, and anyone interested in the intersection of faith and health. Reading this book may result in a paradigm shift for some who view remission of disease as the sole focus for healing, when from a biblical perspective, wholeness and shalom form the basis for promoting health. Christian Global Health invites you to join this transformative mission, where faith and healthcare converge for global well-being.

Author : Bryant L. Myers,Erin Dufault-Hunter,Isaac B. Voss
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645080930

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Health, Healing, and Shalom by Bryant L. Myers,Erin Dufault-Hunter,Isaac B. Voss Pdf

Ever since Jesus’s proclamation in word and deed as the Great Physician, his followers in mission have assumed that salvation and health are intertwined. Yet for every age, Christians need to examine how they can best announce the gospel message of God’s healing in word and deed in their own context. In our era, we are often simultaneously grateful for modern medicine and frustrated by its inability to care for the whole person in effective, affordable ways. In this edited volume, authors with an interest in health missions from a wide variety of experiences and disciplines examine health and healing through the theological lens of shalom. This word, often translated “peace,” names a much more complex understanding of human well-being as right relationships with one another, with God, and with creation. Reading various aspects of healthcare missions through these glasses not only yields much-needed correctives to current practice but also exposes the Spirit’s invitation to participate in God’s ongoing work of tending, caring, and healing our broken world.

Author : Daniel W. O'Neill,Beth Snodderly
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725290112

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All Creation Groans by Daniel W. O'Neill,Beth Snodderly Pdf

In a suffering world reeling from global pandemics and health disparities, it is high time to think theologically about the devastating experience of disease, and to address our God-inspired responsibility to understand its origins and engage in its management. In a fragmented world, we need a unifying and integrated perspective on people in communities embedded in a fractured ecology. In an academic world blind to the spiritual world and imbalanced toward technical solutions, the global church must articulate a contemporary metanarrative that is moral, practical, and deeply transformational. All Creation Groans brings together multiple perspectives for a compelling global-health approach to the pathologies of the world as a part of the missio Dei. The authors paint a unifying perspective on God’s healing intentions in creation, redemption, and consummation, and the opposing nature-corrupting effects of the rebellion of created moral agents. It is a fresh call for the global church to engage in aligning with God’s healing action for eternally sustainable global health.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Holistic medicine
ISBN : OCLC:25406249

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Health, Healing and Wholeness by Anonim Pdf

Author : Beka Book Publications (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Health
ISBN : OCLC:1303633921

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Health in Christian Perspective by Beka Book Publications (Firm) Pdf

Author : Willard M. Swartley
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830863303

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Health, Healing and the Church's Mission by Willard M. Swartley Pdf

Does the Christian community have the resources to develop a coherent response to health care challenges today? Accounting for biblical, theological and church-historical streams, Willard Swartley divulges a long tradition of healing and health care inherited by Christians today. Beginning with in-depth studies of Old and New Testament understandings of healing, the book surveys three millennia of biblical and theological teaching and practice in congregational life and mission. Along the way Swartley uncovers how Christians have understood the role of the church and other institutions in providing health and healing. The book concludes with an attempt to synthesize these biblical, historical and moral perspectives to help all Christians, including those in health care professions, respond to our current health care challenges.

Author : Susan R. Holman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190228231

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Beholden by Susan R. Holman Pdf

Winner of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Religion Global health efforts today are usually shaped by two very different ideological approaches: a human rights-based approach to health and equity-often associated with public health, medicine, or economic development activities; or a religious or humanitarian "aid" approach motivated by personal beliefs about charity, philanthropy, missional dynamics, and humanitarian "mercy." The underlying differences between these two approaches can create tensions and even outright hostility that undermines the best intentions of those involved. In Beholden: Religion, Global Health, and Human Rights, Susan R. Holman--a scholar in both religion and the history of medicine--challenges this traditional polarization by telling stories designed to help shape a new perspective on global health, one that involves a multidisciplinary integration of religion and culture with human rights and social justice. The book's six chapters range broadly, describing pilgrimage texts in the Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic traditions; the effect of ministry and public policy on nineteenth-century health care for the poor; the story of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as it shaped economic, social, and cultural rights; a "religious health assets" approach based in Southern Africa; and the complex dynamics of gift exchange in the modern faith-based focus on charity, community, and the common good. Holman's study serves as an insightful guide for students and practitioners interested in improving and broadening the scope of global health initiatives, with an eye towards having the greatest impact possible.

Author : Delores Shimmin,Gregory Parker,Beka Book (Firm : 2002)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Health
ISBN : OCLC:798926982

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Health in Christian Perspective by Delores Shimmin,Gregory Parker,Beka Book (Firm : 2002) Pdf

Author : Branka Gabric,Stefan Hofmann
Publisher : Verlag Friedrich Pustet
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783791774657

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Healing Mission by Branka Gabric,Stefan Hofmann Pdf

Theologische Studien zu bioethischen und medizinischen Fragestellungen vernachlässigen oft den Aspekt der Gesundheit der Bevölkerung(en). Andererseits hat die Covid-19-Pandemie das Ausmaß der Vernetzung zwischen Völkern und Nationen gezeigt. Trotz zahlreicher Studien zu den ethischen, sozialen und medizinischen Herausforderungen einer globalen Pandemie gibt es immer noch eine bemerkenswerte Lücke in der Reflexion über die Rolle der katholischen Kirche sowohl hinsichtlich der öffentlichen als auch der globalen Gesundheit. Die Beiträge geben Denkanstöße aus moraltheologischer, bioethischer und missionstheologischer Perspektive sowie aus der Sicht einer Gesundheitspastoral und eines sozialen Engagements der Kirche. Der Band erscheint in englischer Sprache.

Author : Dae-Young Lee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666714418

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Shalom: God's Ultimate Purpose for the World by Dae-Young Lee Pdf

What is our preconception about Muslims? Do we continue to practice medical missions in a way that is no longer considered an effective means of presenting the gospel to the unreached? Is our gospel message biblically balanced and firmly contextualized in the context that we try to serve? There are numerous questions that we may ask ourselves when we desire to share God’s love with people who are still alienated from it. Christian cross-cultural missions should reconsider the strategies and attitudes that no longer reflect biblical principles. This book brings a lot of insightful thoughts and suggestions from the author’s medical ministry experience in the Arab world to those who want to reach out to the unreached. The theology of shalom enables us to deeply understand God’s ultimate purpose toward the world that he created and to devote our lives to bring people to his kingdom in the humble way that Jesus has presented throughout his life on earth when he was with us. This book demonstrates how Christian medical missions can be manifested in a more biblical way and can serve people who have been physically injured and emotionally broken more effectively.

Author : Simon Peng-Keller,Fabian Winiger,Raphael Rauch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192865502

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The Spirit of Global Health by Simon Peng-Keller,Fabian Winiger,Raphael Rauch Pdf

Since the beginning of the World Health Organization, many of its staff members, regional offices, member states, and directors-general have grappled with the question of what a 'spiritual dimension' of health looks like, and how it might enrich the health policies advocated by their organisations. Contrary to the wide-spread perception that 'spirituality' is primarily related to palliative care and has emerged relatively recently within the organisation, this study shows that its history is considerably longer and more complex, and has been closely connected to the WHO's ethical aspirations, its quest for more holistic and equitable healthcare, and its struggle with the colonial legacy of international health organisations. While such ideals and struggles silently motivated many of the key actors and policies - such as the provision of universal primary healthcare - which for decades have embodied the organisation's loftiest aspirations, the WHO's official relationship with 'spirituality' advanced in fits, leaps, and setbacks. At times creative and interdisciplinary, at others deeply political, this process was marked by cycles of institutional forgetting and remembering. Rather than as a triumph of religious lobbyists, this book argues, the 'spiritual dimension' of health may be better understood as a 'ghost' that has haunted - and continues to haunt - the WHO as it comes to terms with its mandate of advancing health as a state of 'complete well-being' available to all.

Author : Alexandre A. Martins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498592192

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The Cry of the Poor by Alexandre A. Martins Pdf

This book offers an interdisciplinary effort to address global health issues grounded on a human rights framework seen from the perspective of those who are more vulnerable to be sick and die prematurely: the poor. Combining his scholarship and service in impoverished communities, the author examines the connection between poverty and health inequalities from an ethical perspective that considers contributions from different disciplines and the voices of the poor.

Author : Sarla Chand,Esther Galima Mabry,Mabry Hilton,Dave Hilton,Becky S. Jones,United Methodist Church (U.S.). General Board of Global Ministries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : Health
ISBN : 189056933X

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Abundant Living by Sarla Chand,Esther Galima Mabry,Mabry Hilton,Dave Hilton,Becky S. Jones,United Methodist Church (U.S.). General Board of Global Ministries Pdf

Author : G. Gunderson,J. Cochrane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137015259

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Religion and the Health of the Public by G. Gunderson,J. Cochrane Pdf

The book proposes a critical theory of the role and place of religion in public health and argues for a programmatic reorientation of these two fields of practice and inquiry to more effectively align religious health assets - widely present in many contexts - and public health services and facilities.