Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity. By Gary B. Ferngren
This is an attractively presented book by an accomplished author in the field of medicine, science, and early Christianity, who is clearly familiar with the Greco-Roman world and has a wide knowledge of the secondary literature. But his case is far more compelling in what he affirms about Christian...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 757-760 |
| Review of: | Medicine & health care in early Christianity (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) (Daunton-Fear, Andrew)
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| Summary: | This is an attractively presented book by an accomplished author in the field of medicine, science, and early Christianity, who is clearly familiar with the Greco-Roman world and has a wide knowledge of the secondary literature. But his case is far more compelling in what he affirms about Christian medical philanthropy and health care than in what he denies about miraculous healing. Thus it is the material of chapters 5 and 6 which would seem to be of most enduring value., In chapter 5 Ferngren notes that, in general, the Greeks and Romans did not practise charity towards the poor and sick except those of one’s own class who had fallen on hard times. Stoics disdained pity as an emotion, seeing it as undermining self-sufficiency. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq067 |