Course of God's Providence
Subtitle: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781479806683
Subjects: Theology, doctrinal
Description: "This book tells the story of religion and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. It rejects simplistic frameworks of secularization and enlightenment and emphasizes, instead, continuing and powerful Protestant ideas of God's oversight in shaping and motivating human activity in the realms of narrative, medicine, missions, charity, and maternity"--