Publication: Curing and Healing: Vital Elements of Catholic Health Care
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2017-11-08
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In this research, the significance of curing and healing will be explored with an emphasis on how both are vital to Catholic health care. This essay aims to show that only by embracing both components can health care professionals truly care for the whole person. Moreover, Christian health care professionals ought to follow Christ’s example in order to serve in His mission of caring holistically for those that are ill. As Luke’s account of the Haemorrhoissa (Lk 8:42-48) not only provides a vignette distinguishing between curing and healing, but also an excellent example of how Christ attended to both elements, this essay will interpret this story in order to gain insight into the indispensability of both to whole person Catholic health care. Further, examples extracted form palliative care, an area of health care where curing and healing can be clearly distinguished, will be used to illustrate these elements in practical terms.
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D - Ethics / Moral Theology, A - Humanities, B - New Testament
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Torres, Eric Manuel (2017) Curing and Healing: Vital Elements of Catholic Health Care. Master of Theology (minor thesis) thesis, UNSPECIFIED.