Re-visioning the Mission of Health : A Global Invitation to Heal and Thrive in Crisis / edited by Kirsteen Kim, Alexia Salvatierra, and David Nyansah Hayfron.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hayfron, David Nyansah, editor.

Kim, Kirsteen, editor.

Salvatierra, Alexia., editor.

Series:

Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Theology and Mission in World Christianity ; 39.

Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Theology and Mission in World Christianity ; 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

A Global Invitation to Heal and Thrive in Crisis

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is a global, multidisciplinary exploration of the church’s mission of creating healthy individuals, families, communities and societies. Following the healing ministry of Jesus, Christians have assumed the availability of divine healing and spiritual well-being, internally and interpersonally. Contributors analyze diverse ministries of health and healing, from around the world and throughout the ages, through historical, theological, and practical lenses. These include desert monasteries; medieval hospices, and shrines; modern “medical missions”; “Christian health services”; contemporary psychological therapies; and Christian healers, who may use traditional medicines and reject biomedical intervention. This research shows how healing is integral to Christian faith and mission.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyrights Informations

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Re-visioning the Mission of Health-a Global Invitation

1 Introduction

2 Christian Healing in Global Perspective

3 Re-visioning the Mission of Health

Bibliography

Part 1: Christian Healing in History

1 Global Christian Approaches to Healthcare in Late Antique and Medieval Periods

2 Egypt

3 Ethiopia

4 Syriac Culture

5 The Persian Empire

6 The Mongol Empire

7 The Caucus Region

8 Conclusion

2 Historical Foundations of Christian Medical Missions

2 Prolegomena

3 The Healing Ministry of the Church

4 The Church's Care for the Ill and Deserving before the Emergence of Medical Missions

5 The Emergence of Christian Medical Missions

6 Reconsidering Christian Medical Missions

7 Conclusion

3 A Gospel of Healing: Remembering in Order to Recover

2 Healing and Cosmic Redemption

3 Women Healers

4 Healing Ministry as a Vehicle of Incarnational Ministry

5 Conclusion and Reflection

Part 2: Mission Theology of Health

4 Mission as Participation in God's Homemaking: Towards a World without Mourning, Crying, or Pain

1 The Promise of Home

2 God's Purpose to Make the World a Home

3 New Materiality

4 A Brief Phenomenology of Home

5 Resonance, Attachment, and Mutuality

6 Escalation

7 Reification

8 A Vision of Home-and Its Alternative

8.1 Two Cities

9 Contrasting Values

10 Conclusion

5 Transcending Medicine: an Applied Theology Regarding Disease and Global Health

2 The Missing Link to Attain Fullness of Life and Health: Transcendence

3 Health as the Great Global Connector.

4 Transcending Professionalism and Specialization

5 A Health-Centric Systematic and Biblical Theology

5.1 Theology

5.2 Christology

5.3 Pneumatology

5.4 Soteriology

5.5 Ecclesiology

5.6 Hamartiology

5.7 Theological Anthropology

5.8 Angelology

5.9 Eschatology

5.10 Missiology

6 Defining Health by Transcending Biomedical Categories

7 Acquiring Health and Wholeness

8 Health and Healing as a Sign of the Dwelling Place of God

9 Actualizing Health in Transcendent Anticipation

6 Africans' Perspectives on the Role of the Church in Health and Healing

2 Africans and the Bible

3 Foundations of the Church's Role in Healing and Mission

4 Formation of the Paradigmatic Approach to Healing and Mission in African Churches

5 Evaluation of the Healing and Deliverance Ministry

6 Conclusion

7 Embracing Public Health: an Expression of Healing and Sacrifice

2 The Health of the Public

3 Origins from the Old Testament

4 Exposing Inequities and Health Disparities

5 Biblical Mandate for Public Health

6 Enabling Communities to Flourish

7 Public Health versus Individual Health

8 Just and Inclusive Communities: Living Spirituality for the "Healing of Nations"

2 Spirituality for Healing

3 Dynamism

4 Diversity and Harmony

5 Justice

6 Transformation

7 Health

8 Health as Integral Human Wellbeing

9 Health as "Good Living"

Part 3: Ministries of Healing and Thriving

9 DiscipleShift: Missio Dei as an Invitation to Thrive

2 Shifting Orientations: from Pathology to Purpose

3 A Psychology of Thriving

4 Aspirational Development: Becoming like Christ

5 Individual Development: Growing in Uniqueness.

6 Relational Development: Growing in Communion

7 Thriving and Purpose

8 Thriving as a Process

9 Implications for the Mission of Health

10 Black Women Flourishing: the Making of a Model

2 Developing the Model: Key Considerations

3 BWS Flourishing Model: Mission and Values

3.1 The Mission

3.2 The Values

4 Emergent Strategy

5 Radical Community and Self-Care

6 Putting It All Together

11 Ministries of Health and Human Flourishing

2 Influences Shaping Ministries of Health

3 Framework for Ministries of Health

4 Vision for Future

12 Trauma, Resilience, and Task-Shifting: Leveraging the Wealth of the Church for Healing

2 Task-Shifting-Spreading One-Another Care

3 Task-Shifting by Churches in the Community

4 Applications of Task-Shifting

5 Oasis Africa-a Case Study

6 Levels of Care

6.1 Preparatory Phase

6.2 Training Phase

6.3 Intervention Phase

13 Re-centering Ethnomedicinal Healing: Africa's Sacramental View of Diseases

2 Prevalence and Resilience of Ethnomedicines

3 An Epistemological and Ontological Clash

4 Ethnomedicinal Use in Some African Cultures: a Cultural Anthropological Perspective

5 Pedagogy for Western Biomedical Practice

Epilogue: Flourishing Life in Health

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Kim, Kirsteen Re-Visioning the Mission of Health

ISBN:

9789004707627

OCLC:

1553141469

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004707627 DOI