Theology and Medicine in Conversation
How the Healing Happens
Theology and Medicine in Conversation
How the Healing Happens
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Description
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.
Designed for classroom use this title will enable students to:
- Explore the Christian understanding of illness and healing as informed by the Gospels, the early church, medieval theology, and contemporary theologians
- Addresses contemporary issues of illness, such as cancer, AIDS, addiction, and the pandemics through a theological lens
- Explore how religious observance and spirituality are associated with beneficial health outcomes
- Reconcile deep questions of illness and suffering through a deeper understanding of theology and modern medicine
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Better Together: Two Paths for Healing
2. The Wounds of Mortality: Theology and Medicine in the Anatomy Lab
3. The Ages of Medicine and Faith
4. Pain, Prayer, and Placebo
5. Healing at the End
6. Is Religion Good for You
7. Faith and Contagion in the Public Square
8. Stigma and Health: The HIV Epidemic
9. Addiction: Therapy of Hope and Forgiveness
10. Burnout as Spiritual Crisis
11. Cancer, Immorality, and Christology: the Theological Resonance of Henrietta Lacks
Epilogue
Index
Product details
| Published | Jan 08 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9780567715371 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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