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Annotated Bibliography
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Brown, Peter. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Variety. A.D. 200-1000. 10th
anniv. Rev. Ed. Maiden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
That is the tenth anniversary version of this ebook and was written by Peter Brown. He’s
a celebrated Princeton scholar who is named the creator of a discipline of research referred to as,
“late antiquity.” This ebook gives a transparent historical past of the rise and position of Christianity in
the making of Europe. It particulars the primary thousand years of Christian historical past and is a
basic survey of medieval European Christendom. It particulars the rise of an establishment
that got here to have nice non secular and secular energy.
Cadbury, Henry Joel, “Lexical Notes on Luke-Acts: Current Arguments for Medical Language.”
Journal of Biblical Literature 45, no. 1-2 (1926): 190-209.
Henry Joel Cadbury was an American biblical scholar. He was additionally a historian, author, and
non-profit administrator. He was a graduate of Haverford School and was a Quaker and
agnostic all through his life. He supplied a report in 1912 of the alleged medical language
in Luke and Acts. This was in response to an 1882 itemizing of over 400 phrases that W. Okay.
Hobart had listed as technical phrases of medication. The attention-grabbing factor right here is that
Cadbury disputes that Luke used all of those medical technical phrases. He mentioned, “My reply
was that these examples, even the extra choose ones, couldn’t be referred to as technical, since
they had been extensively utilized in writers who weren’t physicians” (Cadbury 1926, p. 190).
This supply is necessary as a result of Cadbury takes a differing view level from that which is
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usually accepted. He disputes the technical medical language of Luke and subsequently
states that this may now not be used to point out that Luke was undoubtedly the creator.
Ferngren, Gary B. Medication and Healthcare in Early Christianity. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
College Press, 2009.
Gary Ferngren provides an entire historic account of medication within the first 5
centuries of Christianity. He describes how early Christians understood illness and
examines the connection of early Christian drugs to the modes of therapeutic present in
the Bible. He argues that early Christians usually accepted naturalistic assumptions
about illness and cared for the sick with medical data gleaned from the Greeks
and Romans. He examines the origins of medical philanthropy within the early Christian
church. He states that early Christians didn’t view sickness as punishment for sin.
Fairly, they believed that the sick deserved each medical help and compassion.
Christians cared for the sick each inside and out of doors of their group even whereas
struggling persecution. Their lengthy expertise in medical charity led to the creation of
the primary hospitals which was a singular Christian contribution to well being care.
Healy, John F. Pliny the Elder: Pure Historical past. New York: Penguin Books, 2004.
John Healy put collectively a diverse choice from Pliny’s Pure Historical past work into a transparent
and fashionable translation. Pliny the Elder was a Roman creator, a naturalist and pure
thinker, and a naval military commander of the early Roman empire. Pliny’s Pure
Historical past is a superb work that ranges from astronomy to artwork and from geography to
zoology. It provides a view of the world because it was understood within the first century. Books 20
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by means of 32 concentrate on drugs and medicines. He discusses many medical recipes and
treatments that appear unusual by fashionable requirements. It’s attention-grabbing that Pliny died whereas
investigating the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii in A.D. 79. His work, Pure
Historical past, was a extremely influential ebook proper as much as the Renaissance. Pliny’s nephew, Pliny
the youthful, described this ebook “as stuffed with selection as nature itself.”
Heyne, Thomas. “Tertullian and Medication.” Studia Patristica, no. 50 (2011): 131-174.
http://www.tertullian.org/articles/Heyne_Tommy_TertullianMedicine4.pdf
Thomas Heyne is a pediatric physician and focuses on inner drugs. He graduated
from Dallas Southwestern Medical College in Dallas, TX. He wrote a wonderful thesis that
examined Tertullian and his affect on early drugs. Tertullian of Carthage is certainly one of
the earliest identified Christian authors to point out a big curiosity and data of
historic drugs. It’s typically alleged that Tertullian opposed drugs for Christians.
Nonetheless, Heyne states that it’s clear that Tertullian held physicians and drugs in
excessive regard. Pliny the Elder appeared to be certainly one of Tertullian’s important supply of medical
data. Tertullian is the only supply for reconstructing Soranus’ work entitled De
Anima, which supplies a remarkably detailed account of an abortion. He turned to a few of
Soranus of Ephesus’ works later in his profession and used them in arguments.
Love, John. “The Idea of Medication within the Early Church.” The Linacre Quarterly 75, no. three
(2008): 225-238.
John W. Love wrote this wonderful piece in regards to the idea of medication within the early
church. This text makes an attempt to disclose an necessary pattern of early Christian pondering
http://www.tertullian.org/articles/Heyne_Tommy_TertullianMedicine4.pdf
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in regards to the nature and finish of medication. He asserts that a part of the early Christian
expertise with drugs is derived from Greek, Jewish, and Roman cultural influences.
These influences formed the early church’s understanding of medication. This
understanding was finally to turn out to be centered upon the therapeutic Jesus Christ.
Oyemomi, Emmanuel. “The Challenges of the Idea of Medication and Therapeutic within the Gospel of
Luke for the Church in Africa.” Ogbomoso Journal of Theology 18, no. three (2013): 113-127.
Dr. Emmanuel Oyemomi graduated in 2007 from Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary
with a PhD in Biblical Research. He’s a extremely regarded minister and lecturer. He states
that therapeutic and well being is a divine blessing for man, and that Jesus is all-out
compassionate on the sick and the down-trodden. The therapeutic that Luke described
confirmed the nice compassion of Jesus. He makes the purpose right here that the church additionally
has that very same duty. The church has the duty to rise as much as the
challenges by means of the ministry of unity and cohesion to the Lord of the church. If the
church does this, he states that it is going to be in a position to take the battle to the gate of the enemy
and rescue Africa from corruption. What an awesome thought that each nation ought to
ponder. Medication and therapeutic has all the time been wanted within the church.
Pilch, John. Therapeutic within the New Testomony: Insights from Medical and Mediterranean
Anthropology. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2000.
John Pilch was born in Brooklyn, NY and obtained a PhD from Marquette College in
1972. He was an Helpant scientific professor within the Division of Preventive Medication,
Medical School of Wisconsin from 1974 to 1988. He targeted on medical anthropology.
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He then taught the Cultural World of the Bible for eighteen years at Georgetown
College from 1993 to 2011. He at the moment lectures at Johns Hopkins College in
Baltimore, MD. His publications on the Center Japanese cultural world of the Bible and on
therapeutic within the historic world are well-known all around the world. On this writing, he
examines how the earliest followers of Jesus understood therapeutic, what roles healers
performed, and the totally different emphases on therapeutic among the many gospels. He attracts on
Mediterranean anthropology to grasp peasant societies and their health-care
techniques.
Porterfield, Amanda. Therapeutic within the Historical past of Christianity. New York: Oxford College Press,
2005.
Amanda Porterfield is Professor Emerita of Faith at Florida State College. She is a
historian of American faith with pursuits in enterprise, legislation, politics, and fashionable artwork.
She has authored many books and is at the moment engaged on two extra. This ebook provides a
survey of concepts, rituals, and experiences of therapeutic in Christian historical past. Christians have
seen this therapeutic as a outstanding characteristic of their religion down by means of the years. She
states that therapeutic is among the most fixed themes by means of the complete historical past of
Christianity. She sheds new gentle on the universality of spiritual therapeutic. She additionally seems to be
at latest scientific findings about faith’s organic results, and considers the relation
of those findings to ages-old traditions about perception and therapeutic.
Retief, Francois. “The Affect of Christianity on Graeco-Roman Medication As much as the
Renaissance.” Acta Theologica, no. 7 (2005): 259-277.
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Christianity got here onto the scene when faith performed a way more necessary position in
well being care than it does in the present day. This is because of the truth that folks of that point realized
that a lot of life, together with well being, lay past their management. Historic civilizations
believed in a large number of gods, magical forces, and supernatural powers which affected
their well being. Nonetheless, there additionally existed physicians who practiced some type of
empirical drugs that fashioned the foundations of scientific drugs as we all know it
in the present day. This made magic and superstition now not outstanding in drugs. Well being care
within the New Testomony is primarily of a non secular nature. This work by Retief analyzes the
interaction between the Christian church and rational drugs (as represented by
Graeco-Roman medical ideas) in the course of the early years of Christendom.
Scott, William A. “The Observe of Medication in Historic Rome.” Canad Anaes Soc J S, no. 2 (1955):
281-290.
Scott begins by stating that the follow of medication started as a combination of magic and
faith. Rome was a metropolis the place superstition interpreted the whole lot. Tacitus mentioned that
Vespasian as soon as cured a blind man along with his spit and a paralyzed limb by strolling on it.
Scott makes the purpose that Western drugs even in the present day has some non secular magical
parts. He goes on to say that non secular restrictions nonetheless exert their affect in
fashionable follow. He said that phrases equivalent to complexes and conditional reflexes are
used in the present day to explain concepts that the ancients ascribed to magic. It’s fascinating that he
states that the thought of magician-priest-physician was a logical idea throughout these early
instances. In early drugs, surgical procedure tended to be extra environment friendly than medical remedy.
