Sent to Heal!: Emergence and Development of Medical Missions - Hardcover

Grundmann, Christoffer H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761833196 ISBN 13: 9780761833192

Verlag: University Press of America, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Sent to Heal! traces the development of medical missions, one of the most intriguing, complex, and controversial phenomena in the history of the encounter of Western and Non-Western cultures promoted by Christianity. This groundbreaking study surveys the missions from their earliest beginnings in the 15th century until the turn of the twentieth century. Sent to Heal! is a defining reference work on the philosophical, theological, missiological, and scientific aspects of medical missions. An extensive bibliography is included.

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Christoffer H. Grundmann is Professor of Theology and John R. Eckrich University Chair Professor in Religion and the Healing Arts at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. His study of the history of medical missions, Sent to Heal! (2005), was listed as one of the "fifteen outstanding books of 2005 for mission studies" by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0761833196
• ISBN 13: 9780761833192
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland