Healing the Nations. Restoring Shalom.
The world is grappling with complex health challenges and disparities, forcing us to confront many pressing questions. How do Christians understand and practice healthcare? What is the biblical view of health and healing? This workbook unravels these queries, offering deep insights into the Christian approach to global health issues.
Christian Global Health in Perspective delves into the biblical foundations of health, historical perspectives of Christian medical missions, and strategies for integrating faith with modern healthcare. Health is wholeness in body, mind, and spirit. The authors, seasoned experts in theology and medicine, guide readers through an exploration of how the church can innovatively respond to current global health concerns.
This resource is essential for healthcare professionals, church leaders, development workers, and anyone interested in the intersection of faith and health. Reading this book may result in a paradigm shift for some who view remission of disease as the sole focus for healing, when from a biblical perspective, wholeness and shalom form the basis for promoting health. Christian Global Health invites you to join this transformative mission, where faith and healthcare converge for global well-being.
Table of Content
Introduction
Purpose of Course
Course Description
Course Objectives
Section 1 – Biblical Foundations for Missions – Daniel O’Neill and Paul Hudson
Lesson 1 – Creation, Health, and Wholeness
Lesson 2 – The Fall, Disease, Suffering, and Death
Lesson 3 – Salvation, Healing, and Mission
Section 2 – Historical Foundations – Christoffer Grundmann and Paul Hudson
Lesson 4 – Origins and Infancy: Jesus’s Healing Ministry to the 19th Century
Lesson 5 – Time of Adolescence: Christian Medical Missions During the 19th and 20th Centuries
Lesson 6 – Growing into Maturity: Christian Global Healthcare from the 20th to 21st Century
Section 3 – Culture and Health – Rebecca Meyer and Grace Tazelaar
Lesson 7 – Culture, Worldview, and Health
Lesson 8 – Cultural Factors Impacting Health
Lesson 9 – Culture and the Unseen World
Section 4 – Strategic Innovation – Arnold Gorske, Rebecca Meyer, Perry Jansen, and Mike Soderling
Lesson 10 – Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Lesson 11 – Churches, Hospitals, and Health Systems
Lesson 12 – Leadership, Innovation, and Emerging Practices
About the author
Grace Tazelaar started out teaching nursing education at a diploma school and was involved in its transition to a baccalaureate program. She left nursing education to do community health development in Uganda from 1985 to 1991. It was at the end of the civil war and the beginning of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Her career focus changed from women’s health to public health during that time. After the war, she worked with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education as they developed the first baccalaureate nursing program in the area. Grace now serves as the NCF Missions Director in a volunteer role.121,900 Ebooks in this category
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