Jesus as healer: a gospel for the body
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; I. Remembering Jesus as Healer: Perspectives from New Testament Scholarship; Introductory Remarks to the New Testament Part; The Evidence of the Canonical Gospels: A Survey; Healing Stories; Summaries; Conclusions; Jesus and Contemporary Healers; Jesus a...
| Summary: | Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; I. Remembering Jesus as Healer: Perspectives from New Testament Scholarship; Introductory Remarks to the New Testament Part; The Evidence of the Canonical Gospels: A Survey; Healing Stories; Summaries; Conclusions; Jesus and Contemporary Healers; Jesus as Healer in Current New Testament Scholarship; A Healer Who Did Not Cure Diseases (John J. Pilch and John Dominic Crossan); Assessing the Pilch -- Crossan Model; Diagnostics Based on Ancient Texts; Inspecting "Meaning Restored to Life"; Allegories and Parables? Acts of Mercy and Compassion: "I Want!"The Time Has Come: The Kingdom of God and Jesus' Healings; Healing and Proclamation; Fighting Evil Powers and Restoring Life Intended; Summarizing the Emic Perspective; Jesus Still a Healer through His Disciples; Paul -- A Healer Suffering from Sickness?; "Jesus Christ Heals You" -- The Book of Acts; The Relationship between Jesus' Healings and the Apostles' Healings; The Healing Stories in the Book of Acts and History; Jesus' Commission of His Disciples during His Ministry; Mark's Two (Secondary) Endings. A First -- Century Psychiatrist? (Don Capps)Sigmund Freud's Fräulein Elisabeth von R. and the Paralytics of the Gospels; Ralph Waldo Emerson and Two Blind Men of the Gospels; Assessing Capps's Model; The Power of Faith -- Placebo? (Gerd Theissen); Assessment of Theissen's Model; Placebo Theory; Variety in the Rituals and Placebo; The Absence of Prayer in Jesus' Healings?; A Cultural Phenomenon (Pieter F. Craffert); Assessing Craffert's Model; ASC Experiences; A Summary of the Works Presented; Raising the Dead -- Implications for Jesus as Healer?; Jesus as Healer in the Gospels. II. Jesus as Healer and Contemporary TheologyApproaches to Healing and Related Topics in Science and Theology; What Is Healing?; Healing Researched under "Scientific" Conditions and in Contemporary Discussion; LeShan's Study of Healers; Spiritual Healing in a Scholarly Perspective -- Some Further Notes on Religion, Science, and Placebo; Christian Healing and Spiritual Healing; Basic Features; Some Features of How Healing Has Been Understood in the History of Christianity; The Modern Embarrassment regarding Healing Miracles -- and Overcoming It; Friedrich Schleiermacher; Rudolf Bultmann. Matthew 28:19-20: The Commission Text Par ExcellenceLuke 24:47-49: Empowered by the Spirit; New Testament Apocrypha; The Infancy Gospel of Thomas; Jesus at Work in the Healing Stories of the Apocryphal Acts; Healing in the Early Church; Ambivalence; Jesus at Work; Healing as Supporting Evidence; Mission and Healing; Toward a Theology of Jesus as Healer; From Jesus' Healing Ministry to Posterity; Faith: Seeking a Gift; A Comprehensive Image of Humanity: Incarnation; "From the Beginning": Restoring Creation; Prophetic Symbolic Acts; Jesus the Healer -- Exclusive? |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1467445266 |