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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453257403321

Titolo

Healing to all their flesh [[electronic resource] ] : essays in spirituality, theology, and health / / [edited by] Jeff Levin, Keith G. Meador

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Conshohocken, Pa., : Templeton Press, c2012

ISBN

1-59947-419-0

1-283-98986-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LevinJeffrey S

MeadorKeith G

Disciplina

201/.661

Soggetti

Health - Religious aspects - Christianity

Health - Religious aspects - Judaism

Healing - Religious aspects - Christianity

Healing - Religious aspects - Judaism

Aging - Religious aspects - Christianity

Aging - Religious aspects - Judaism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Jewish perspectives -- pt. 2. Christian perspectives.

Sommario/riassunto

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 consistent with understandings of faith within respective traditions? What does this actually imply? What does it not imply? How have these ideas been distorted? Why does this matter-for medicine and healthcare and also for the practice of faith? Is the ultimate relation between spirit and flesh, as