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The healing church : practical programs for health ministries / Abigail Rian Evans.
Van Pelt Library BT732.2 .E833 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evans, Abigail Rian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Medicine.
- Medical ethics.
- Pastoral medicine.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 262 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cleveland, Ohio : United Church Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- What role can churches and religious organizations play in health care today? Abigail Rian Evans answers this question and others in this valuable guide to practical programs for health ministries. Beginning with a survey of the history of health ministry in the church, she demonstrates that what is needed is not to invent health ministries, but to recapture the spirit of the church as a health institution, both spiritual and physical. She then goes on to show what practical programs exist in the world today, and why these programs are important for the church to embrace and develop. This is an important resource for any individual or institution looking to start or build up a health ministry program.
- Notes:
- Companion to: Redeeming marketplace medicine.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0829813403
- OCLC:
- 41488774
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