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.
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