LA FOI CHRETIENNE FACE A L'USAGE DE MEDICAMENTS


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La discussion dans laquelle nous nous engageons consiste à ressortir très clairement la position de la Bible, en générale, et, en particulier, celle des écrivains du Nouveau Testament en ce qui concerne la guérison et l'usage tant de médicaments que de tout service qui a trait à la profession médicale. Plusieurs questions brûlantes se rapportant à ce sujet sont abordées et une sérieuse analyse est entreprise dans l'objectif d'y pouvoir apporter des réponses satisfaisantes.La croyance en la guérison divine exclut-elle l'usage des médicaments Lorsqu'un Chrétien tombe malade et refuse de prendre des médicaments, lesquels, selon les médecins, l'auraient certainement guéri et que la mort s'en suive, peut-on qualifier cette mort d'acte héroïque de la foi ou tout simplement un acte suicidaire d'un Chrétien inconscient et tué par son ignorance?...Ce livre aborde aussi le problème de la transfusion sanguine, de la contraception et de dons d'organes dans une approche biblico-anthropologique.













Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages


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A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach – combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions by leading international scholars from these disciplines, the collected volume explores themes such as lovesickness, the five senses, the role of memory and passions, in order to shed new light on the complex nature of the medieval Self.




Life Interpretation and the Sense of Illness within the Human Condition


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In medicine the understanding and interpretation of the complex reality of illness currently refers either to an organismic approach that focuses on the physical or to a 'holistic' approach that takes into account the patient's human sociocultural involvement. Yet as the papers of this collection show, the suffering human person refers ultimately to his/her existential sphere. Hence, praxis is supplemented by still other perspectives for valuation and interpretation: ethical, spiritual, and religious. Can medicine ignore these considerations or push them to the side as being subjective and arbitrary? Phenomenology/philosophy-of-life recognizes all of the above approaches to be essential facets of the Human Condition (Tymieniecka). This approach holds that all the facets of the Human Condition have equal objectivity and legitimacy. It completes the accepted medical outlook and points the way toward a new `medical humanism'.




Bantu Philosophy


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The War of Gods


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In the 1960s liberation theology addressed itself to the problems of a continent racked by poverty and oppression. Comprising a network of localized communities and pastoral organizations, it soon became something much more than a doctrinal current. Liberationist Christianity defined itself in a multitude of social struggles, particularly in Brazil and Central America.




UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition


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"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description