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Probing the Demise and Recovery of Healing in Christianity

Probing the Demise and Recovery of Healing in Christianity - 46- PROBING THE DEMISE AND RECOVERY OF HEALING IN CHRISTIANITY by J. Steven O'Malley Part One: The Demise of Healing in Christianity As we examine historical sources, we find that Christians have not been the only ones concerned with the healing of the sick over the years. In fact, we know that there is practically no civilization that has not had some religious concern for higher Being and for the achievement of wholeness in human life. Another approach to healing is that which emerges from the pages of classical Greek antiquity. Note the difference between the perspective of healing in the context of the kingdom which Jesus announced, and the understanding of healing which stems from classical humanism. The latter view remains a viable option in our day. The first hospitals, so far as we know, are to be found among the ancient Greeks. There was a god of medicine that the Greeks called Asklepios, who probably was a deified version of an ancient physician by that same name who healed people in ancient Greece. His daughter was J. Steven O'Malley (Ph.D., Drew University), serves as Associate Professor of Church History, School of Theology. Oral Roberts University, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

Probing the Demise and Recovery of Healing in Christianity

O'Malley, J. Steven
Pneuma , Volume 5 (1): 46 – Jan 1, 1983
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© 1983 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0272-0965
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1570-0747
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10.1163/157007483X00041
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- 46- PROBING THE DEMISE AND RECOVERY OF HEALING IN CHRISTIANITY by J. Steven O'Malley Part One: The Demise of Healing in Christianity As we examine historical sources, we find that Christians have not been the only ones concerned with the healing of the sick over the years. In fact, we know that there is practically no civilization that has not had some religious concern for higher Being and for the achievement of wholeness in human life. Another approach to healing is that which emerges from the pages of classical Greek antiquity. Note the difference between the perspective of healing in the context of the kingdom which Jesus announced, and the understanding of healing which stems from classical humanism. The latter view remains a viable option in our day. The first hospitals, so far as we know, are to be found among the ancient Greeks. There was a god of medicine that the Greeks called Asklepios, who probably was a deified version of an ancient physician by that same name who healed people in ancient Greece. His daughter was J. Steven O'Malley (Ph.D., Drew University), serves as Associate Professor of Church History, School of Theology. Oral Roberts University,

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Published: Jan 1, 1983

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