Holistic Healing in Byzantium

"This fascinating volume, of impressive interdisciplinary range, trains a bright light on the therapeutic practices of Byzantine Christian medicine in wider contexts of historical anthropology and epistemology. These essays remind us of the powerful relevance of a psychosomatic, integrative approach to healing, which we call 'holistic' as though it were new. Holistic Healing in Byzantium reminds us that such an approach is anything but new. In fact, the 'news' of its antiquity condemns post-Enlightenment medical science for how it has gravely lost sight of 'the whole person,' body and soul, matter and spirit, both afflicted in any illness, both implicated in any cure. An important history that is at the same time a rehabilitation of our essential humanity."  -- Kimberly C. Patton (Harvard Divinity School) Contents Preface - John T. Chirban p. ix Foreword - Jaroslav Pelikan p. xi Part I: Introduction Chapter 1 - Holistic Healing in Byzantium - John T. Chirban p. 3 Chapter 2 - Understanding the Importance of Epistemologies and Methodologies in Holistic Healing - John T. Chirban p. 37 Part II: Healing Institutions Chapter 3 - The Byzantine Hospital - Timothy Miller p. 73 Chapter 4 - Monastic Health Care and the Late Antique Hospital p. 91 Chapter 5 - Healing and the Scope of Religion in Byzantium: A Response to Miller and Crislip - Derek Krueger p. 119 Chapter 6 - Faith and Healing in Sacramental Life in the Byzantine and Modern Greek Orthodox Experience - Demetrios Constantelos p. 131 Part III: Belief and Faith Healing Chapter 7 - Faith Healing in Byzantium - Alice-Mary Talbot p. 151 Chapter 8 - Virtuous Soul, Healthy Body: The Holistic Concept of Health in Byzantine Representations of Christ's Healing Miracles - Maria Evangelatou p. 173 Chapter 9 - St. Demetrios and Faith Healing in Thessalonike - James Skedros p. 243 Chapter 10 - Healing the Body, Saving the Soul: Viewing Christ's Healing Ministry in Byzantium - Rossitza Schroeder p. 253 Chapter 11 - Theological Dimensions of Holistic Healing - Maximos Aghiorgoussis p. 281 Chapter 12 - Organic Complexity and the Healing of Our Epistemology - Timothy Patitsas p. 297 Epilogue - John T. Chirban p. 309 Contributors p. 311 Product Description Paperback: 312 Pages Publisher: Holy Cross Orthodox Press ISBN: 978-1-885652-89-8 Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 1 inches Author: John T. Chirban Publication Year: 2010