Foreword / Rabbi Samuel E. Karff -- Prologue : the intersection of spirituality, theology, and health / Jeff Levin -- pt. I. Jewish perspectives. ch. 1. Cure and healing, where God met science : four decades of spiritual progress / William Cutter -- ch. 2. Contemplating a theology of healthy aging / Richard Address -- ch. 3. Dwindling or grateful : toward a resilient old age / Dayle A. Friedman -- ch. 4. Using Jewish law to respond to contemporary issues in bioethics / Elliot N. Dorff -- ch. 5. Give me your hand : exploring Judaism's approach to the relationship of spirit and health / Simkha Y. Weintraub -- pt. II. Christian perspectives. ch. 6. St. Thomas Aquinas and the end(s) of religion, spirtuality, and health / Warren Kinghorn -- ch. 7. Beguiling religion : the bifurcations and biopolitics of spirituality and medicine / M. Therese Lysaught -- ch. 8. The ontological generality in spirituality and health / Stephen G. Post -- ch. 9. From health to shalom : why the religion and health debate needs Jesus / John Swinton -- ch. 10. Suffering presence : twenty-five years later / Stanley Hauerwas -- Epilogue : theology and health : challenges and possibilities / Keith G. Meador
Summary
Healing to All Their Flesh asks us to step back and carefully rethink the relationship between religion and health. It does so by examining overlooked issues of theology and meaning that lie at the foundation of religion's supposed beneficial function. Is a religion-health relationship consistent with understandings of faith within respective traditions? What does this actually imply? What does it not imply? How have these ideas been distorted? Why does this matter-for medicine and healthcare and also for the practice of faith? Is the ultimate relation between spirit and flesh, as
