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Theology and Medicine in Conversation: How the Healing Happens

Theology and Medicine in Conversation: How the Healing Happens

Doolittle, Benjamin R.
Heim, S. Mark

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Medical ReferenceReligion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 0567715353
ISBN13: 9780567715357
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: Feb 19 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.15 Depth: 9.14
Language: English

Doolittle and Heim examine the complex interplay between modern medicine, religion, and spirituality.

Medicine and religion share many concerns: suffering and illness, healing and well-being. The biological model of illness empowers medicine to bring dramatic improvements in physical health. At the same time, modern medicine often ignores the spiritual needs of patients and deeper challenges of holistic healing. In turn, religious institutions have always supported people through suffering, and often pioneer the delivery of health care to those in need. However, religious convictions sometimes conflict with medical perspectives; and some forms of religious belief and practice may be injurious to health.

Each side can stereotype the other---medicine as sterile and unfeeling, religion as irrational and injurious. This book draws upon broad resources of Biblical theology, history, and contemporary thought to explore questions of faith, the role of the church, the lived experience of illness, and the modern practice of medicine.

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