Illness, pain, and health care in early Christianity

"An interdisciplinary study that examines the ways early Christians viewed illness, pain, and health care-and how they were influenced in these matters both by their own tradition and by the culture of the larger ancient Greco-Roman world"--

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Auteur principal: Rhee, Helen ca. 20./21. Jh. (Auteur)
Type de support: Imprimé Livre
Langue:Anglais
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WorldCat: WorldCat
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: Grand Rapids, Michigan William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2022
Dans:Année: 2022
Recensions:[Rezension von: Rhee, Helen, ca. 20./21. Jh., Illness, pain, and health care in early Christianity] (2023) (Spencer, Franklin Scott)
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Maladie / Christianisme / Religion / Antiquité tardive / Antiquité / Soins de santé / Bibel / Préhistoire et protohistoire
RelBib Classification:KAB Christianisme primitif
Sujets non-standardisés:B Medicine Religious aspects Christianity History
B RELIGION / Religion & Science
B Pain Religious aspects Christianity History
B Health Religious aspects Christianity History
B Church History Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
B History & Culture / RELIGION / Biblical Studies
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Édition parallèle:Électronique
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Résumé:"An interdisciplinary study that examines the ways early Christians viewed illness, pain, and health care-and how they were influenced in these matters both by their own tradition and by the culture of the larger ancient Greco-Roman world"--
"What did pain and illness mean to early Christians? And how did their approaches to health care compare to those of the ancient Greco-Roman world? In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, Helen Rhee examines the ways early Christians viewed illness, pain, and health care-and how they were influenced both by their own tradition and by the milieu of the larger ancient world. Throughout the book, Rhee places the history of medicine, Greco-Roman literature, and ancient philosophy in fruitful dialogue with early Christian literature and theology to show the nuanced ways Christians understood, appropriated, and reformulated Roman and Byzantine conceptions of health and wholeness from the second through the sixth centuries CE. Utilizing the contemporary field of medical anthropology, Rhee engages illness, pain, and health care as sociocultural matters. Through this and other methodologies, she explores the theological meanings attributed to illness and pain; the religious status of those suffering from these and other afflictions; and the methods, systems, and rituals that Christian individuals, churches, and monasteries devised to care for those who suffered. Rhee's findings ultimately provide an illuminating glimpse into an instrumental way that Christians began shaping a distinct identity-both as part of and apart from their Greco-Roman world"--
Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Description matérielle:xvi, 351 Seiten
ISBN:0802876846