Healing as Constitutive of Jesus' Mission Handed to the Church: An African Catholic Perspective
After a basic statement of the Catholic doctrine on healing ministry, this article adopts the understanding of the World Council of Churches' document Healing and Wholeness: The Churches' Role in Health, adopted in 1990 by the central committee. The document views health, healing, and whol...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2020]
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International review of mission
Year: 2020, Volume: 109, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-26 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDB Roman Catholic Church KDJ Ecumenism NBP Sacramentology; sacraments NCH Medical ethics RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Catholic
B Wholeness B World Council of Churches B Health B Africa B sacraments of healing B Healing B Mission (international law B Sacrosactum concilium B Ecumenical |
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| Summary: | After a basic statement of the Catholic doctrine on healing ministry, this article adopts the understanding of the World Council of Churches' document Healing and Wholeness: The Churches' Role in Health, adopted in 1990 by the central committee. The document views health, healing, and wholeness not just as medical issues, but as embracing the political, social, economic, cultural, and spiritual dimensions. Building on the above, this article proposes an integral approach to sacramental healing for the African Catholic Church, arguing that alongside healing of physical ailments and deliverance from evil and malignant forces, healing must include working for social justice and peace for the people. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6631 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International review of mission
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/irom.12306 |