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Annotated Bibliography
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Brown, Peter. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Range. 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 examine known as,
“late antiquity.” This ebook gives a transparent historical past of the rise and function of Christianity in
the making of Europe. It particulars the primary thousand years of Christian historical past and is a
common 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 Faculty and was a Quaker and
agnostic all through his life. He provided 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 fascinating 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 known as technical, since
they have 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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typically accepted. He disputes the technical medical language of Luke and due to this fact
states that this could now not be used to indicate that Luke was positively the creator.
Ferngren, Gary B. Drugs and Healthcare in Early Christianity. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
College Press, 2009.
Gary Ferngren offers 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 medication to the modes of therapeutic present in
the Bible. He argues that early Christians typically 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.
Somewhat, they believed that the sick deserved each medical help and compassion.
Christians cared for the sick each inside and out of doors of their neighborhood 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 diversified 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 offers a view of the world because it was understood within the first century. Books 20
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by means of 32 give attention to medication and medicines. He discusses many medical recipes and
cures that appear unusual by fashionable requirements. It’s fascinating 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 Drugs.” Studia Patristica, no. 50 (2011): 131-174.
http://www.tertullian.org/articles/Heyne_Tommy_TertullianMedicine4.pdf
Thomas Heyne is a pediatric physician and makes a speciality of inner medication. He graduated
from Dallas Southwestern Medical Faculty in Dallas, TX. He wrote a wonderful thesis that
examined Tertullian and his affect on early medication. Tertullian of Carthage is one among
the earliest identified Christian authors to indicate a big curiosity and data of
historical medication. It’s usually alleged that Tertullian opposed medication for Christians.
Nevertheless, Heyne states that it’s clear that Tertullian held physicians and medication in
excessive regard. Pliny the Elder appeared to be one among Tertullian’s major supply of medical
data. Tertullian is the only real 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 Drugs within the Early Church.” The Linacre Quarterly 75, no. three
(2008): 225-238.
John W. Love wrote this wonderful piece concerning 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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concerning the nature and finish of medication. He asserts that a part of the early Christian
expertise with medication is derived from Greek, Jewish, and Roman cultural influences.
These influences formed the early church’s understanding of medication. This
understanding was in the end to grow to be centered upon the therapeutic Jesus Christ.
Oyemomi, Emmanuel. “The Challenges of the Idea of Drugs 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 will probably be in a position to take the battle to the gate of the enemy
and rescue Africa from corruption. What an ideal thought that each nation ought to
ponder. Drugs 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 Drugs,
Medical Faculty 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 present lectures at Johns Hopkins College in
Baltimore, MD. His publications on the Center Jap cultural world of the Bible and on
therapeutic within the historical world are well-known everywhere in the world. On this writing, he
examines how the earliest followers of Jesus understood therapeutic, what roles healers
performed, and the completely different emphases on therapeutic among the many gospels. He attracts on
Mediterranean anthropology to know peasant societies and their health-care
methods.
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, regulation, politics, and fashionable artwork.
She has authored many books and is at present engaged on two extra. This ebook offers a
survey of concepts, rituals, and experiences of therapeutic in Christian historical past. Christians have
seen this therapeutic as a distinguished characteristic of their religion down by means of the years. She
states that therapeutic is among the most fixed themes by means of the whole historical past of
Christianity. She sheds new gentle on the universality of non secular therapeutic. She additionally appears to be like
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 Drugs 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 function 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. Historical civilizations
believed in a mess of gods, magical forces, and supernatural powers which affected
their well being. Nevertheless, there additionally existed physicians who practiced some type of
empirical medication that fashioned the foundations of scientific medication as we all know it
in the present day. This made magic and superstition now not distinguished in medication. 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 medication (as represented by
Graeco-Roman medical ideas) in the course of the early years of Christendom.
Scott, William A. “The Observe of Drugs in Historical 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 all the things. 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 medication even in the present day has some non secular magical
components. He goes on to say that non secular restrictions nonetheless exert their affect in
fashionable follow. He acknowledged that phrases akin 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 concept of magician-priest-physician was a logical idea throughout these early
occasions. In early medication, surgical procedure tended to be extra environment friendly than medical remedy.
