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Jesus as healer : a gospel for the body / Jan-Olav Henriksen & Karl Olav Sandnes

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Henriksen, Jan-Olav
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Grand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016.
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1 online resource (x, 273 pages)
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Contents
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 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?, and 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.
Summary
"Healings and miracles play a prominent role in the New Testament accounts of Jesus' life and ministry. In the Western Christian tradition, however, Jesus' works of healing tend to be downplayed and understood as little more than a demonstration of his divine power. In this book Jan-Olav Henriksen and Karl Olav Sandnes draw on both contemporary systematic theology and New Testament scholarship to challenge and investigate the reasons for that oversight. They constructively consider what it can mean for Christian theology today to understand Jesus as a healer, to embrace fully the embodied character of the Christian faith, and to recognize the many ways in which God can still be seen to have a healing presence in the world."--
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9781467445269 (electronic bk.)
1467445266 (electronic bk.)
9780802873316
0802873316
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-263) and index.
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