Download or read book Being Christian in Your Medical Practice written by Dr. Jim Halla and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a doctor and going to the doctor are theological issues. A major thesis of the book is that a de-medicalization of physicians is necessary and should be replaced by a Scripto-centric approach to life in the practice of medicine. This call is radical, humanly speaking, but we have a God Who has given much to us as Christian physicians and expects much of us. There is a biblical view of the practice of medicine, and it is the major avenue that patients have for reaching true comfort and help. Each physician must be able to articulate it and the book is written for that purpose. A rightly understood biblical view of medicine is the only way that doctors have for giving genuine hope to hurting people and for the advancement of God s kingdom.
Download or read book Being Christian Your Medical Practice written by Jim Halla and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a doctor and going to the doctor are theological issues. A major thesis of the book is that a "de-medicalization" of physicians is necessary and should be replaced by a "Scripto-centric" approach to life in the practice of medicine. This call is radical, humanly speaking, but we have a God Who has given much to us as Christian physicians and expects much of us. There is a biblical view of the practice of medicine, and it is the major avenue that patients have for reaching true comfort and help. Each physician must be able to articulate it and the book is written for that purpose. A rightly understood biblical view of medicine is the only way that doctors have for giving genuine hope to hurting people and for the advancement of God's kingdom.
Download or read book Practice by the Book written by Gene Rudd and published by . This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity written by Gary B. Ferngren and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on New Testament studies and recent scholarship on the expansion of the Christian church, Gary B. Ferngren presents a comprehensive historical account of medicine and medical philanthropy in the first five centuries of the Christian era. Ferngren first describes how early Christians understood disease. He examines the relationship of early Christian medicine to the natural and supernatural modes of healing found in the Bible. Despite biblical accounts of demonic possession and miraculous healing, Ferngren argues that early Christians generally accepted naturalistic assumptions about disease and cared for the sick with medical knowledge gleaned from the Greeks and Romans. Ferngren also explores the origins of medical philanthropy in the early Christian church. Rather than viewing illness as punishment for sins, early Christians believed that the sick deserved both medical assistance and compassion. Even as they were being persecuted, Christians cared for the sick within and outside of their community. Their long experience in medical charity led to the creation of the first hospitals, a singular Christian contribution to health care. "A succinct, thoughtful, well-written, and carefully argued assessment of Christian involvement with medical matters in the first five centuries of the common era . . . It is to Ferngren's credit that he has opened questions and explored them so astutely. This fine work looks forward as well as backward; it invites fuller reflection of the many senses in which medicine and religion intersect and merits wide readership."—Journal of the American Medical Association "In this superb work of historical and conceptual scholarship, Ferngren unfolds for the reader a cultural milieu of healing practices during the early centuries of Christianity."—Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith "Readable and widely researched . . . an important book for mission studies and American Catholic movements, the book posits the question of what can take its place in today's challenging religious culture."—Missiology: An International Review Gary B. Ferngren is a professor of history at Oregon State University and a professor of the history of medicine at First Moscow State Medical University. He is the author of Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction and the editor of Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction.
Download or read book Reclaiming the Body written by Joel James Shuman and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A doctor and a theologian explore the relationship between Christian faith and medicine, encouraging a more biblical view of health and health care by individuals and churches
Download or read book The Christian as a Doctor written by James T. Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the old-fashioned doctor had little trouble relating religion to his practice by means of pious behavior, the modern doctor is perplexed as to what difference religion makes in medical practice -- or what difference it ever did make. Like many moderns he finds religion, if he has it, something apart from life itself -- removed from occupational realities. He does not understand how Christian faith should affect the choice or conduct of an occupation. To let religion affect occupational decisions seems to many to be a dubious mixing of "religion and business," and pious behavior in a professional setting seems artificial and unreal. At many places in the following discussion it would seem that the Christian doctor does not differ from the non-believer in the everyday practice of his profession. The physician in this portrait is the modern informed man of good will. It is implied that he is a bit more perceptive of issues, more philosophical, more disciplined, more aware of how all actions are morally ambiguous, and alert to how pride destroys perspective. But in this book the Christian doctor is shown as shrinking from the claim that his faith distinguishes him from the agnostic or atheist in the practice of medicine. The image which emerges is one of a believing and perhaps even beloved physician whose characteristic disclaimer is like that of our Lord, "Why callest thou me good?" A Christian faith that can relate itself to modern life must speak the language of the new, modern doctor. It will not be heard if it urges a return to the expression of Christian piety that captured the public imagination in former years. The following is a "begin-where-you-are" approach which attempts to say: "There are spiritual dimensions to the doctor's job: sense them, cultivate them; deepen your insights as a physician, and you will find that you are not far from the Kingdom." Let no one suggest that the "Christian" depicted in these pages is a mildly convinced, ambivalent, inarticulate believer -- and yearn for a volume entitled "A Doctor Succeeds Through Prayer." This is an exploratory inductive study to lead readers into the fruitful pilgrimage of faith in contact with vocation itself which can result in a real synthesis of religion and life. It is offered in an earnest effort to help all physicians feel out the spiritual contours of their own vocation. - Preface.
Download or read book Ideals in Medicine written by Christian Medical Fellowship and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Faith Health and Medical Practice written by Hessel Bouma and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The High Calling written by Alessio C. Salsano and published by . This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the day of his birth his grandfather was certain that Alessio Salsano would become a doctor. To become a physician was to reach the pinnacle of success, to achieve the ultimate goal. As soon as his tiny hands could hold on to things his father made sure he held books on science and medicine. Now, Dr. Salsano takes you on a journey through the life of a physician. Telling of his Italian heritage and upbringing as a child, he shares the details of establishing medicine as his career goal and his early search for life's meaning as he learned to embrace evangelical Christianity. This book chronicles medical school, falling in love, and the welding together of faith and science. It tells how Dr. Salsano came to reside in Virginia Beach where he started a private practice, and describes a personal revival of faith and how it impacted his practice of medicine. Revealing some of the most fascinating and trying times he has experienced in medicine, Dr. Salsano speaks to the medical student seeking this spiritually taxing career. Encouraging the reader with inspiring stories, he shows how combining science and faith in the everyday practice of medicine may be risky, but it is necessary to becoming a great doctor. It's a story of sacrifice, lawsuits, and testing of morals and ethics. Learn how one doctor nearly lost all confidence in his ability to help people, but fought the urge to flee, and stayed to fight. With God's help, he chose The High Calling.
Download or read book The Dangers of Christian Practice written by Lauren F. Winner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the central place that "practices" have recently held in Christian theology, Lauren Winner explores the damages these practices have inflicted over the centuries Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner provocatively challenges the assumption that the church possesses a set of immaculate practices that will definitionally train Christians in virtue and that can't be answerable to their histories. Is there, for instance, an account of prayer that has anything useful to say about a slave-owning woman's praying for her slaves' obedience? Is there a robustly theological account of the Eucharist that connects the Eucharist's goods to the sacrament's central role in medieval Christian murder of Jews? Arguing that practices are deformed in ways that are characteristic of and intrinsic to the practices themselves, Winner proposes that the register in which Christians might best think about the Eucharist, prayer, and baptism is that of "damaged gift." Christians go on with these practices because, though blighted by sin, they remain gifts from God.
Download or read book Medical Social Work Practice written by Kendra Flores-Carter and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Accidental Feminist written by Courtney Reissig and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “My name is Courtney. I’m an accidental feminist.” Although many Christians wouldn’t identify themselves as feminists, the reality is that the feminist movement has influenced us all in profound ways. We unconsciously reflect our culture’s ideas related to womanhood rather than what’s found in the Bible. In this book, Courtney Reissig—a wife, mom, and successful writer—recounts her journey out of “accidental feminism,” offering wise counsel for Christian women related to relationships, body image, and more—drawing from the Bible rather than culture. Whether you’re a committed feminist, a staunch traditionalist, or somewhere in between, this book will help you answer the question, “What does it mean to be a Christian woman?” You’ll discover the joy, purpose and importance that are found in God’s good design.
Download or read book The Healing Imperative The Early Church and the Invention of Medicine as We Know It written by Mike Aquilina and published by Emmaus Road Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you; heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’” —Luke 10:8-9 When Jesus sent seventy disciples on ahead of him, part of their mission was to heal the sick. In fact, they were supposed to heal the sick before they preached the Gospel. Best-selling author Mike Aquilina calls this command the healing imperative. And it’s an imperative that ushered in the world of modern medicine. The Healing Imperative: The Early Church and the Invention of Medicine as We Know It reconstructs the fascinating history of a uniquely Christian institution: the hospital. Underlining how the virtues of charity and hospitality motivated the first generations of Christians, along with Jesus’ explicit command to heal the sick, Aquilina shows just how revolutionary the actions of Christian doctors and nurses were and how they transformed society in ways that still reverberate today. The radical developments in health care spearheaded by Christians influenced culture, society, and civilization. As The Healing Imperative proves, now more than ever, the compassion of Christians is needed to guide the world of medicine. Jesus’ command still resonates, and Aquilina urges us to respond.
Download or read book Teach Me To Feel written by Courtney Reissig and published by The Good Book Company. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditations on the Psalms helping women to express their feelings and grow in their faith. Many of us suppress our feelings because we’re worried they are ungodly. Others of us are so led by our emotions that we let them dominate everything, including our faith. In these honest, personal and uplifting meditations on 24 selected psalms, Courtney Reissig looks at emotions we all experience, ranging from shame, anxiety, and anger through to gratitude, hope, and joy. For each, she shows how the psalms give us permission to acknowledge how we feel before God, and how they can help us to use those feelings productively and faithfully. This inspiring book will give women a language to cry out to God in order to help them process their feelings, as well as help them to grow in their faith. Can be used as a daily devotion.
Download or read book Kingdom Work written by M. D. D. C. Lajoie, D. B. S. and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Christian and a doctor, the author saw a need for a guidebook for other Christian doctors to help merge their faith and their medical practice. Christian physicians have a hard time being evangelical about their faith within their professional lives. Patients of these Christian doctors are not sure how their faith is supposed to be considered in their medical treatment plan. Both doctors and patients have abandoned any mention of Christianity within medical offices. Every Christian doctor should be bold within and outside of the medical office thus, allowing Christian patients to share their beliefs with their doctor who shares the same faith. This book provides the reasons to do so from a Biblical standpoint, as well as from the more formal, evidence-based medicine that doctors are taught to rely on when making a medical decision. This guidebook shows how to incorporate Christianity into the medical office on all levels, ranging from office staff to treatment plans. It is also meant to be a guide for Christian patients who want their doctors to include their faith in their patient/doctor relationship. This book has been written to elevate the relationship shared by the doctor and patient. Both doctor and patient, being in Christ, have a crucial role and responsibility to each other in the doctor-patient relationship. This book is meant to expand the consciousness of the Christian medical community.
Download or read book Glory in the Ordinary written by Courtney Reissig and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folding laundry. Weeding the garden. Cooking dinner. Changing diapers. Work in the home can seem so ordinary. Does any of it matter? Is there meaning in our most mundane moments at home? When the work of the home fills our days, it is easy to get disillusioned and miss God's grand purpose for our work. As image bearers of the Creator who made us to work, we contribute to society, bringing order out of chaos and loving God through loving others—meaning there's glory in every moment. In this encouraging book, Courtney Reissig combats the common misconceptions about the value of at-home work—helping us see how Christ infuses purpose into every facet of the ordinary.
Download or read book Changing World Unchanging Values written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
