Author: Bruce Steffes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615268767
Category : Missionaries, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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A handbook designed to prepare medical personnel for the challenges of short-term and long-term medical missions

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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: Sir William James Wanless
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: New York Medical Mission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401203636
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism, from the late-1800s to the 1960s. Although the figure of mission doctor – exemplified by David Livingstone and Albert Schweitzer – exercised a powerful influence on the Western imagination during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, few historians have examined the history of this important aspect of the missionary movement. This collection of articles on Asia and Africa uses the extensive archives that exist on medical missions to both enrich and challenge existing histories of the clinic in colonial territories – whether of the dispensary, the hospital, the maternity home or leprosy asylum. Some of the major themes addressed within include the attitude of different Christian denominations towards medical mission work, their differing theories and practices, how the missionaries were drawn into contentious local politics, and their attitude towards supernatural cures. Leprosy, often a feature of such work, is explored, as well as the ways in which local people perceived disease, healing and the missionaries themselves. Also discussed is the important contribution of women towards mission medical work. Healing Bodies, Saving Souls will be of interest not only to students and historians but also the wider reader as it aims to define the place of missionary within the overall history of medicine.

Author: Walter Russell Lambuth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Bryant L. Myers
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
ISBN: 1645080935
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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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.

Author: John Lowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions and missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Robert Fletcher Moorshead
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Dae-Young Lee
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666714437
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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What is our preconception about Muslims? Do we continue to practice medical missions in a way that is no longer considered an effective means of presenting the gospel to the unreached? Is our gospel message biblically balanced and firmly contextualized in the context that we try to serve? There are numerous questions that we may ask ourselves when we desire to share God's love with people who are still alienated from it. Christian cross-cultural missions should reconsider the strategies and attitudes that no longer reflect biblical principles. This book brings a lot of insightful thoughts and suggestions from the author's medical ministry experience in the Arab world to those who want to reach out to the unreached. The theology of shalom enables us to deeply understand God's ultimate purpose toward the world that he created and to devote our lives to bring people to his kingdom in the humble way that Jesus has presented throughout his life on earth when he was with us. This book demonstrates how Christian medical missions can be manifested in a more biblical way and can serve people who have been physically injured and emotionally broken more effectively.