HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Alternative Medicine, Biomedicine, Faith Healing
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Religious stance god heals or teaches one something they need to learn via their illness. Healing is something that needs to be awaken or cultivated within us a kind of acceptance of god"s will and our need to deal with it. Theological stance religious framework to understand illness and how it ts a larger biological or social pattern. How it helps us nd healing and combat fear and anxiety. To be understood that illness has a purpose or signi cance illness leads to the potential possibility of healing thus acknowledging a divine purpose. Christianity relates illness to human beings sinfulness, sinful nature or to speci c thoughts or actions = sin causes illness directly, cause or effect way, or is a punishment from god i. e. original sin. Patterns of sin suggest that we are not being disciplined enough to be in tune with or hear.