Holistic healing in Byzantium
By: edited by John T. Chirban.
Contributors: Chirban, John T.
Publisher: Holy Cross Orthodox Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Brookline, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781885652898
Subjects: Orthodox Eastern Church -- Doctrines; Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church; Healing -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church; Medicine, Medieval -- Byzantine Empire; Holistic medicine -- Byzantine Empire; Byzantine Empire -- Church history
Table of contents: title: Preface / John T. Chirban; title: Foreword / Jaroslav Pelikan; title: Part I: Introduction; title: Holistic healing in Byzantium / John T. Chirban; title: Understanding the importance of epistemologies and methodologies in holistic healing / John T. Chirban; title: Part II: Healing institutions; title: The Byzantine hospital / Timothy Miller; title: Monastic health care and the late antique hospital / Andrew Crislip; title: Healing and the scope of religion in Byzantium : a response to Miller and Crislip / Derek Krueger; title: Faith and healing in sacramental life in the Byzantine and modern Greek Orthodox experience / Demetrios Constantelos; title: Part III: Belief and faith healing; title: Faith healing in Byzantium / Alice-Mary Talbot; title: Virtuous soul, healthy body : the holistic concept of health in Byzantine representations of Christ's healing miracles / Maria Evangelatou; title: St. Demetrios and faith healing in Thessalonike / James Skedros; title: Healing the body, saving the soul : viewing Christ's healing ministry in Byzantium / Rossitza Roussanova; title: Theological dimensions of holistic healing / Maximos Aghiorgoussis; title: Organic complexity and the healing of our epistemology / Timothy Patitsas; title: Epilogue / John T. Chirban.