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Healing to all their flesh [electronic resource]

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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

Title Healing to all their flesh [electronic resource] : essays in spirituality, theology, and health / [edited by] Jeff Levin, Keith G. Meador.
Publisher West Conshohocken, Pa. : Templeton Press
Creation Date c2012
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content pt. 1. Jewish perspectives -- pt. 2. Christian perspectives.
Extent 1 online resource (305 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010708774005171
MARC RECORDS
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