Healing to All Their Flesh asks us to step back and carefully rethink the relationship between religion and health. It does so by examining overlooked issues of theology and meaning that lie at the foundation of religion’s supposed beneficial function. Is a religion-health relationship consistent with understandings of faith within respective traditions? What does this actually imply? What does it not imply? How have these ideas been distorted? Why does this matter—for medicine and healthcare and also for the practice of faith? Is the ultimate relation between spirit and flesh, as mediated by…mehr
Healing to All Their Flesh asks us to step back and carefully rethink the relationship between religion and health. It does so by examining overlooked issues of theology and meaning that lie at the foundation of religion’s supposed beneficial function. Is a religion-health relationship consistent with understandings of faith within respective traditions? What does this actually imply? What does it not imply? How have these ideas been distorted? Why does this matter—for medicine and healthcare and also for the practice of faith? Is the ultimate relation between spirit and flesh, as mediated by the context of human belief and experience, a topic that can even be approached through empirical observation, scientific reasoning, and the logic of intellectual discourse?
Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH, is University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and director of the Program on Religion and Population Health in the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University. He also serves as professor of medical humanities at Baylor and as adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. Keith G. Meador, MD, ThM, is professor and vice chair for faculty affairs in psychiatry and professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University. He is also director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, and on the faculty of the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt. Dr. Meador also serves as the director of mental health and chaplaincy through the VISN 6 MIRECC within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword / ix Rabbi Samuel E. Karff, DHL Acknowledgments / xiii Prologue. The Intersection of Spirituality, Theology, and Health / 3 Jeff Levin Part 1: Jewish Perspectives 1. Cure and Healing, Where God Met Science: Four Decades of Spiritual Progress / 17 William Cutter 2. Contemplating a Theology of Healthy Aging Richard Address / 26 3. Dwindling or Grateful: Toward a Resilient Old Age / 52 Dayle A. Friedman 4. Using Jewish Law to Respond to Contemporary Issues in Bioethics / 65 Elliott N. Dorff 5. Give Me Your Hand: Exploring Judaism’s Approach to the Relationship of Spirit and Health / 97 Simkha Y. Weintraub Part 2: Christian Perspectives 6. St. Thomas Aquinas and the End(s) of Religion, Spirituality, and Health / 123 Warren Kinghorn 7. Beguiling Religion: The Bifurcations and Biopolitics of Spirituality and Medicine / 150 M. Therese Lysaught 8. The Ontological Generality in Spirituality and Health / 186 Stephen G. Post 9. From Health to Shalom: Why the Religion and Health Debate Needs Jesus John / 219 Swinton 10. Suffering Presence: Twenty-Five Years Later / 242 Stanley Hauerwas Epilogue. Theology and Health: Challenges and Possibilities / 259 Keith G. Meador About the Contributors / 271 Index / 272
Foreword / ix Rabbi Samuel E. Karff, DHL Acknowledgments / xiii Prologue. The Intersection of Spirituality, Theology, and Health / 3 Jeff Levin Part 1: Jewish Perspectives 1. Cure and Healing, Where God Met Science: Four Decades of Spiritual Progress / 17 William Cutter 2. Contemplating a Theology of Healthy Aging Richard Address / 26 3. Dwindling or Grateful: Toward a Resilient Old Age / 52 Dayle A. Friedman 4. Using Jewish Law to Respond to Contemporary Issues in Bioethics / 65 Elliott N. Dorff 5. Give Me Your Hand: Exploring Judaism’s Approach to the Relationship of Spirit and Health / 97 Simkha Y. Weintraub Part 2: Christian Perspectives 6. St. Thomas Aquinas and the End(s) of Religion, Spirituality, and Health / 123 Warren Kinghorn 7. Beguiling Religion: The Bifurcations and Biopolitics of Spirituality and Medicine / 150 M. Therese Lysaught 8. The Ontological Generality in Spirituality and Health / 186 Stephen G. Post 9. From Health to Shalom: Why the Religion and Health Debate Needs Jesus John / 219 Swinton 10. Suffering Presence: Twenty-Five Years Later / 242 Stanley Hauerwas Epilogue. Theology and Health: Challenges and Possibilities / 259 Keith G. Meador About the Contributors / 271 Index / 272
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