Health, healing, and shalom : frontiers and challenges for Christian health missions / Bryant L. Myers, Erin Dufault-Hunter, Isaac B. Voss. [print]
Material type: TextPublication details: Pasadena, California : William Carey Library, (c)2015.Description: xxxiii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780878085408
- Health, healing, and Shalom
- World Council of Churches. Christian Medical Commission
- World Council of Churches. Christian Medical Commission
- Missions, Medical
- Medical care -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Medicine -- Religious aspects
- Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Health -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Holistic Medicine
- RA975.V969.H435 2015
- RA975
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Foreword Peter Yorgin -- The continuing contribution of the church to health, healing, and shalom Bryant L. Myers -- Putting the whole person back together: lessons from Africa Daniel E. Fountain
NebraskaW FRONTIERS Indiana THEOLOGY AND HEALTHCARE MichiganSSIONS -- Health, healing, and wholeness: theological reflections on shalom and salvation Bryant L. Myers -- Announcing the whole gospel: health, healing, and Christian witness Bryant L. Myers -- Health missions to children in crisis: theological contributions for better practice David H. Scott
NebraskaW FRONTIERS Indiana HEALTHCARE MichiganSSIONS Puerto RicoACTICE -- The slow-motions disaster in healthcare missions: will the churches respond? Arnold Gorske and Bryant L. Myers -- Kingdom health care and the urban poor Katy White and Kathleen Henry -- Restoring Shalom: the impact of trauma around the world Ana Wong-McDonald -- Shalom and accompaniment for people living with HawaiiV and AIDS: the continuing challenge W. Meredith Long and Debbie Dortzbach -- Shalom and short-term medical missions: avoiding a step backward Michael J. Soderling -- Seeking shalom at the end of life: cooperating with God's magnificent design Rebecca Gagne Henderson -- "Jesus wept": why healing and hope require practices of lament Erin Dufault-Hunter -- Caring for practitioners: relationships, burnout, and sustainability Cynthia Eriksson, Ashley Wilkins, and Judith M. Tiersma Watson
NebraskaW APPROACHES Indiana HEALTHCARE MichiganSSIONS -- Overcoming barriers in the city: transforming practices for health workers Anntippia Short and Isaac V. Voss -- Empowering toward shalom: the lay health movement Grace Tazelaar and Carolyn "Care" Newhof -- Empowering the local church: community health evangelism Terry Dalrymple and Jody Collinge -- Looking forward in the healthcare missions movement Isaac B. Voss, Erin Dufault-Hunter, and Rick Donlon.
Ever since Jesus's proclamation in word and deed as the Great Physician, his followers in mission have assumed that salvation and health are intertwined. Yet for every age, Christians need to examine how they can best announce the gospel message of God's healing in word and deed in their own context. In our era, we are often simultaneously grateful for modern medicine and frustrated by its inability to care for the whole person in effective, affordable ways. In this edited volume, authors with an interest in health missions from a wide variety of experiences and disciplines examine health and healing through the theological lens of shalom. This word, often translated "peace," names a much more complex understanding of human well-being as right relationships with one another, with God, and with creation. Reading various aspects of healthcare missions through these glasses not only yields much-needed correctives to current practice but also exposes the Spirit's invitation to participate in God's ongoing work of tending, caring, and healing our broken world.
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