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 Contemporar...
| 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? -- 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 -- 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 -- Matthew 28:19-20: The Commission Text Par Excellence -- Luke 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? -- II. Jesus as Healer and Contemporary Theology -- Approaches 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 -- Karl Barth -- Jürgen Moltmann -- Recent Discussion about Miracles -- Are Healings Miracles? Preliminary Considerations -- Soundings in the Contemporary Discussion -- Terence Nichols -- Keith Ward -- Wolfhart Pannenberg -- Ilkka Pyysiäinen -- John Polkinghorne -- Niels Henrik Gregersen and Divine Action in the World -- Stephen Pattison's Criticism of Christian Spiritual Healing -- Who Is the God of Healing? Pattison versus MacNutt -- Summary of and Comments on Pattison's Criticisms of Healing -- Acceptance of Healing from an Empirical and Theological Point of View -- Healing within a Christological Framework -- The Status of Jesus: Exceptional or Exemplary? -- Healing as Sign: Presence and Revelation of God -- Healing as Grace -- Healing and Faith Healing in the Wider Context of Christology, Christianity, and New Age -- Conclusion: The Healing Christ - A Vision for Contemporary Christology -- Concluding Considerations about the Theological Understanding of Jesus as Healer -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Texts |
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| ISBN: | 1467445266 |