Description
Book SynopsisDisease and Healing in the New Testament is a comprehensive and critical examination of New Testament data relating to disease and healing from scientific and medical perspectives as well as theological perspectives. Particular attention is given to the recorded healings by Jesus in the Gospels and by the Apostles in Acts, relating them to modern medical concepts, particularly diagnostic categories. This book argues that the healings undertaken by Jesus and the Apostles show the consistent and coherent pattern of conditions amenable to ''folk medicine.''
Trade ReviewThis book is warmly recommended as a competent study of its subject, noteworthy for the comprehensive notes and references that follow each chapter. * The Expository Times *
This book is warmly recommended as a competent study of its subject, noteworthy for the comprehensive notes and references that follow each chapter. * The Expository Times *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Contents Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Setting the Scene Chapter 4 The Historical and Cultural Context of Healing in the New Testament Chapter 5 The Healing Ministry of Jesus: The Markan Tradition Chapter 6 The Healing Ministry of Jesus: The Non-Markan Synoptic Traditions Chapter 7 The Healing Ministry of Jesus: The Johannine Tradition Chapter 8 Healing in the Early Church: The Witness of the Acts of the Apostles Chapter 9 Healing in the Early Church: The Witness of the New Testament Letters Chapter 10 Drawing the Ends Together Chapter 11 Select Bibliography Chapter 12 Indexes
