Overview
The fifteen papers presented here examine three centuries of close, if sometimes ambiguous, links between Christian mission and medicine. The authors, who include theologians, historians, sociologists, physicians and representatives of major international health-care organisations, address themselves to such questions as: How is one to assess the results of past missionary health-care effort? How are modern-day Christian organisations to cope with the burden of institutions set up in the past? What links should the Churches maintain with official medical organisations? What position should the Churches take on the 'faith v. healing' debate begun by certain religious groups? And how is one to lay the groundwork of a theology of health and healing? The complexity of the issues outlined here can - alas - provide no easy answers. Quinze auteurs, compris theologiens, historiens, sociologues, medecins et responsables d'organisations sanitaires, ont centre leurs reflections sur le role des Eglises chretiennes dans le domaine de la sante, hier dans les pays de mission, aujourd'hui dans ces memes regions ou se murit une veritable inculturation du christianisme. Dans cet ouvrage ils abordent plusieurs questions fondamentales: comment evaluer les resultats et lacunes de l'action sanitaire des missions dans le passe? Les communautees chretiennes actuelles doivent-elles porter le poids d'institutions mises en place hier? Quels rapports les Eglises doivent-elles entretenir avec les organisations medicales officielles? Comment les Eglises se situent-elles dans la dialectique 'foi-guerison' developpee par certains groupes religieux? Plus profondement, comment poser les jalons d'une theologie de la sante et de la guerison? Trouver les reponses sur ces questions complexes c'est une tache tres delicate.
Full Product Details
Author: Jean Pirotte ,
Henri Derroitte
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 5
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.520kg
ISBN: 9789004094703
ISBN 10: 9004094709
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 August 1991
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'Un ouvrage [...] d'un reel interet...' Rene Luneau, Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, 1994.
' Un ouvrage [...] d'un riel intirjt...'<br>Reni Luneau, Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, 1994.<br>
Author Information
Jean Pirotte is Head of Research of the National Foundation of Scientific Research, and Lecturer at the University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), Belgium. Henri Derroitte is an Associate of the Faculty of Theology, Louvain-la-Neuve. Jean Pirotte, docteur-agrege en histoire, maitre de recherches au Fonds national de la recherche scientifique, enseigne a l'Universite de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve). Henri Derroitte, assistant a la Faculte de theologie de Louvain-la-neuve, prepareun doctorat en sciences religieuses sur les revues theologiques africaines entre 1969 et 1988.
