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    Reclaiming the Body (The Christian Practice of Everyday Life): Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine
    Reclaiming the Body (The Christian Practice of Everyday Life): Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine
    Reclaiming the Body (The Christian Practice of Everyday Life): Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine
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    Reclaiming the Body (The Christian Practice of Everyday Life): Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine

    By Joel Shuman and Brian MD Volck

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    We live in an age of incredible medical technology, and with it, a great emphasis on health and well-being. We fully entrust the care of our bodies to the medical profession, often taking its solutions and judgments as gospel. But what role, if any, should our Christian faith play in all this?

    In Reclaiming the Body, a physician and a theologian take a critical look at some of the assumptions we draw from the medical profession and explore what theology has to say about medicine, our bodies, our health, and the Body of Christ. The authors deal with such issues as suffering, caring for the sick, children and reproductive technologies, medicine and the poor, our obsession with physical perfection, and death and dying.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateFeb 1, 2006
    ISBN9781441231796
    Reclaiming the Body (The Christian Practice of Everyday Life): Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine
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    Joel Shuman

    Joel Shuman (Ph.D., Duke University) teaches moral theology at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He is a frequent public speaker, the author of numerous articles about theology and medicine, and coauthor of Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine, and the Distortion of Christianity.

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