Heal thyself spirituality, medicine, and the distortion of Christianity

Heal Thyself argues that our popular culture's fascination with the health benefits of religion reflects not the renaissance of the world's great religious traditions but the powerful combination of pervasive consumer capitalism and a deeply self-interested individualism. A faith-for-healt...

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Tác giả chính: Shuman, Joel James
Tác giả khác: Joel James Shuman; Keith G. Meador
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Được phát hành: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2003
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300 |a xiii, 174 p. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-167) and index 
520 |a Heal Thyself argues that our popular culture's fascination with the health benefits of religion reflects not the renaissance of the world's great religious traditions but the powerful combination of pervasive consumer capitalism and a deeply self-interested individualism. A faith-for-health exchange, say the authors, serves to misrepresent and devalue the true meaning of faith. Such a utilitarian approach renders the content of faith superfluous, allowing a generic, highly personalized description of faith to take the place of a specific, confessional commitment to what one believes and does as a member of a community of faith. "From the Christian viewpoint, the religion and health movement is dangerously deficient. Christians do not believe in the self-revelation of God in Jesus Christ in order to be healthy. For Christians, learning to be religious does not mean enlisting faith as a vehicle to get what we want, but rather learning by faith to want the right things at the right time and to live with a spirit of gratitude and hope."--Jacket 
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