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Autore: | Porterfield Amanda <1947-> |
Titolo: | Healing in the history of Christianity [[electronic resource] /] / Amanda Porterfield |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina: | 234/.131 |
Soggetto topico: | Spiritual healing |
Healing - Religious aspects - Christianity | |
Miracles | |
Healing in the Bible | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-207) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Jesus, exorcist and healer -- Healing in early Christianity -- Healing in medieval Christianity -- Healing in early modern Christianity -- Healing in Western Christianity's global expansion -- Christianity and the global development of scientific medicine -- Christian healing in the shadow of modern technology and science. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Amanda Porterfield offers a survey of ideas, rituals, and experiences of healing in Christian history. Jesus himself performed many miracles of healing, and Christians down the ages have seen this as a prominent feature of their faith. Indeed, healing is one of the most constant themes in the long and sprawling history of Christianity. Changes in healing beliefs and practices offer a window into changes in religious authority, church structure, and ideas about sanctity, history, resurrection, and the kingdom of God. Porterfield chronicles these changes, at the same time shedding important new |
Titolo autorizzato: | Healing in the history of Christianity |
ISBN: | 0-19-972994-8 |
1-280-83561-3 | |
1-4294-3095-8 | |
0-19-803574-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910465536503321 |
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