HEALTH FOR ALL NATIONS
  • About
    • What is Health
    • History
    • The Name and The Vision
  • Contact
  • Donate
    • Health for All Nations

Blog

HEALING IN MEDICINE AND THEOLOGY

2/23/2016

1 Comment

 
Picture
F​rom Rev Dr John Wilkinson’s work “The Bible and Healing.” (Eerdmans, 1998)
Medicine has become a body of scientific knowledge combined with an accumulation of skills in the diagnosis and treatment of disease which exists as an independent discipline not necessarily related to any other. (the case could be made that this is true with regards to medical MISSIONS as well, my comment) While ‘healing’ has become a weasel word, often emptied of specific meaning and used in various contexts, some of which are less honorable than others. (pg 1)

If we are to understand the relation of the concept of healing to both medicine and theology, it is obvious that we must try to define more exactly what we mean by healing….we shall use the word healing in accordance with the observation that ‘as ordinarily used this word means the restoration to normality of deranged physical functions but in the wider meaning which a Christian view of man requires, healing is the enabling of a person (here I have taken the liberty to replace the author’s original word ‘man’ with person)  to function as a whole in accordance with God’s will for her/him’. This means that healing is neither medical charlatanism nor theological limboism, but included both the practice of orthodox medicine and the making of people whole in a theological sense.
​
Healing extends to all areas of human life and being. It cannot be confined to the body and the purely physical phenomena of the repair of wounds and the union of fractures. If human beings are indivisible entities, as we believe them to be, any disturbance of their health affects them as a whole and it it is to be effective, healing must also extend to the whole of their life and being. (the last 2 paragraphs from page 2)
1 Comment
Victoria Addington link
7/19/2022 03:34:28 am

It made sense when you mentioned that the concept of healing must involve medicine and theology to make a person whole. My brother finds theology a very interesting topic. He is even planning to widen his knowledge by attending providence theological seminary.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    This is the blog for the Best Practices in Global Health Mission division of the Center for the Study of Health in Mission. It is a space for all who are interested in sharing opinions, ideas and best practices having to do with Christ centered health related ministry.

    Archives

    April 2020
    March 2020
    March 2018
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    December 2016
    August 2016
    June 2016
    February 2016
    July 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    November 2014
    September 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    August 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Picture



​
​
​© 2024 Health for All Nations
All Rights Reserved
In Partnership with Frontier Ventures
​and the Ralph D. Winter Launch Lab

Picture
Donate

​ABOUT
The mission of Health for All Nations is to engage the global Christian community in the exploration and application of biblical revelation, scientific evidence, and cumulative experience as they relate to health and wholeness. Our mission includes assisting the global Christian church in fulfilling its mandate to promote health and healing among the nations.
​
Learn More
RESOURCES
  • Health, the Bible and the Church book access
  • Quest for Health
  • Understanding Health
  • History of Health
  • History of Christianity
  • Integrated Mission
  • Medical Mission Prep.
  • Missions in the 21st Century
  • Cultural Transformation
  • Unity in Our Diversity
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Ralph Winter
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • About
    • What is Health
    • History
    • The Name and The Vision
  • Contact
  • Donate
    • Health for All Nations