The Rules of the Brethren of Early Christianity
Author : Community Farm of the Brethren (Bright, Ont.)
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Page : 5 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 195?
Category : Christian communities
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Author : Community Farm of the Brethren (Bright, Ont.)
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Page : 5 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 195?
Category : Christian communities
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Author : Community Farm of the Brethren (Bright, Ont.)
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 196?
Category : Collective settlements
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Author : Gary B. Ferngren
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 2016-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1421420066
Drawing on New Testament studies and recent scholarship on the expansion of the Christian church, Gary B. Ferngren presents a comprehensive historical account of medicine and medical philanthropy in the first five centuries of the Christian era. Ferngren first describes how early Christians understood disease. He examines the relationship of early Christian medicine to the natural and supernatural modes of healing found in the Bible. Despite biblical accounts of demonic possession and miraculous healing, Ferngren argues that early Christians generally accepted naturalistic assumptions about disease and cared for the sick with medical knowledge gleaned from the Greeks and Romans. Ferngren also explores the origins of medical philanthropy in the early Christian church. Rather than viewing illness as punishment for sins, early Christians believed that the sick deserved both medical assistance and compassion. Even as they were being persecuted, Christians cared for the sick within and outside of their community. Their long experience in medical charity led to the creation of the first hospitals, a singular Christian contribution to health care. "A succinct, thoughtful, well-written, and carefully argued assessment of Christian involvement with medical matters in the first five centuries of the common era . . . It is to Ferngren's credit that he has opened questions and explored them so astutely. This fine work looks forward as well as backward; it invites fuller reflection of the many senses in which medicine and religion intersect and merits wide readership."—Journal of the American Medical Association "In this superb work of historical and conceptual scholarship, Ferngren unfolds for the reader a cultural milieu of healing practices during the early centuries of Christianity."—Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith "Readable and widely researched . . . an important book for mission studies and American Catholic movements, the book posits the question of what can take its place in today's challenging religious culture."—Missiology: An International Review Gary B. Ferngren is a professor of history at Oregon State University and a professor of the history of medicine at First Moscow State Medical University. He is the author of Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction and the editor of Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction.
Author : F. Roy Coad
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2001-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781573831833
Coad's work traces the history of the Brethren Movement, which began more than 170 years ago and has since spread throughout the world. The author considers some of the outstanding characters produced by the movement, as well as its signficance in relation to the whole Christian church.
Author : Joseph Yudin
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Page : 81 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Anabaptists
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Author : Church of the Brethren
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Page : 462 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : Peter Gordon Clark
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Page : 366 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Bright (Ont.)
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Author : J. Bruce Behney
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Page : 438 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Augustus Waldo Drury
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Page : 862 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : John Lawrence
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Page : 902 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 1868
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