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Jesus: The Village Psychiatrist – Donald Capps

Jesus: The Village Psychiatrist – Donald Capps Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 7 (2009) 199–207 brill.nl/jshj © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI 10.1163/174551909X447392 Book List Books on the Historical Jesus CAPPS, Donald, Jesus: Th e Village Psychiatrist (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2008), xxvi + 145 pp. ISBN 9780664232405. $19.95. Donald Capps writes this book for laypersons, ‘pastors, chaplains, and others who are engaged in ministry to the sick’ (p. xxv). His topic is Jesus’ curative methods in the healing miracle stories; his thesis is that those whom Jesus healed suff ered from psy- chosomatic illnesses and Jesus understood them as such. Capps’s argument thus recalls a search for a ‘miracle-free Jesus’: his view of Jesus’ ‘deeper knowledge of scientifi c laws’ (p. xiv) and mind–body connection is akin to Venturini’s portable medicine chest and Schleiermacher’s trust in ‘mental infl uence’. In the Introduction, Capps explains that he wishes to ‘stand on its head’ Schweitzer’s 1913 defence of Jesus’ mental health by reconceiving Jesus as psychiatrist, not patient. He also distils some high points of scholarship on the healing miracles, from literal inter- pretation to redaction criticism to social science. Chapters 1–3 describe the symptoms and causes of somatoform disorders, based http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Brill

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Brill
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© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1476-8690
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1745-5197
DOI
10.1163/174551909X447392
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Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 7 (2009) 199–207 brill.nl/jshj © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI 10.1163/174551909X447392 Book List Books on the Historical Jesus CAPPS, Donald, Jesus: Th e Village Psychiatrist (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2008), xxvi + 145 pp. ISBN 9780664232405. $19.95. Donald Capps writes this book for laypersons, ‘pastors, chaplains, and others who are engaged in ministry to the sick’ (p. xxv). His topic is Jesus’ curative methods in the healing miracle stories; his thesis is that those whom Jesus healed suff ered from psy- chosomatic illnesses and Jesus understood them as such. Capps’s argument thus recalls a search for a ‘miracle-free Jesus’: his view of Jesus’ ‘deeper knowledge of scientifi c laws’ (p. xiv) and mind–body connection is akin to Venturini’s portable medicine chest and Schleiermacher’s trust in ‘mental infl uence’. In the Introduction, Capps explains that he wishes to ‘stand on its head’ Schweitzer’s 1913 defence of Jesus’ mental health by reconceiving Jesus as psychiatrist, not patient. He also distils some high points of scholarship on the healing miracles, from literal inter- pretation to redaction criticism to social science. Chapters 1–3 describe the symptoms and causes of somatoform disorders, based

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Journal for the Study of the Historical JesusBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2009

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