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Informationen zum Autor Fraser Watts is a Reader in Theology and Science at the Faculty of Divinity! University of Cambridge. He is the editor of Creation! Law and Probability (2008)! Jesus and Psychology (2007)! The Dialogue between Science and Religion (2006) and the author of Theology and Psychology (2002). He is also an ordained minister in the Church of England! and Vicar-Chaplain of St Edward's Church in Cambridge. Klappentext Explores both religious and scientific perspectives on spiritual healing, identifying what it is and how it works. Zusammenfassung This edited collection explores what spiritual healing is and how it works! from a variety of religious and scientific points of view. It is demonstrated that these two apparently opposed perspectives answer different questions about spiritual healing! and there is not necessarily any conflict between them. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Preface; 1. Conceptual issues in spiritual healing Fraser Watts; 2. The historical Jesus and healing: Jesus' miracles in psycho-social context Justin Meggitt; 3. The theology of spiritual healing Philip Clayton; 4. Healing the spirit: mystical Judaism, religious texts and medicine Simon Dein; 5. Conceptualisations of spiritual healing: Christian and secular Charles Bourne and Fraser Watts; 6. The psychodynamics of spiritual healing and the power of mother kissing it better Bruce Kinsey; 7. Spiritual healing in the context of the human need for safeness, connectedness and warmth: a biopsychosocial approach Paul Gilbert; 8. Modeling the biomedical role of spirituality through breast cancer research Michael Boivin and Burton Webb; 9. Spirituality and health: assessing the evidence Marilyn Schlitz; 10. Relating spiritual healing and science: some critical reflections David Leech; 11. Concluding integration Fraser Watts.
