HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alternative Medicine, Faith Healing, Biomedicine
17 Jan 2017
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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 a(cid:272)(cid:272)epta(cid:374)(cid:272)e of god"s (cid:449)ill a(cid:374)d our (cid:374)eed to deal (cid:449)ith it. Theological stance religious framework to understand illness and how it fits a larger biological or social pattern: how it helps us find healing and combat fear and anxiety. To be understood that illness has a purpose or significance illness leads to the potential possibility of healing thus acknowledging a divine purpose. Christianity relates illness to human beings sinfulness, sinful nature or to specific 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 god. So individuals are expected to take responsibility for illness thought is they brought it upon themselves.
