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Health, healing and spirituality : the future of the church's ministry of healing : a German position paper offering ecumenical, diaconal and missiological perspectives on a holistic understanding of Christian witness for healing in western societies
Bartmann, Peter Jakob, Beate Laepple, Ulrich Werner, Dietrich
Bartmann, Peter
Jakob, Beate
Laepple, Ulrich
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Is there a role today for the churches in the area of health? Is there a link between health, healing and spirituality? We live in a society obsessed by performance. Good health is therefore highly prized – often more than anything else – and huge effort is put into achieving it. Health is a booming market, often under the fashionable label of “wellness”, and there is a lot of interest in the spiritual dimension of health, particularly outside the Christian churches. Type “healing and spirituality” into any search engine and you’ll find your screen inundated with an almost overwhelming range of so-called “alternative” services that have set themselves up in this market.
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So it is time for us in the congregations, and in the social and community organizations of the Christian churches in Germany to take a measured and critical look at the issues of health, spirituality and healing, and to seek practical ways forwards. To promote this process, the authors of this document have set up a working group on “healing and spirituality”. The group deals with issues relating to health, spirituality and healing from perspectives of medical mission, world mission, organized social work and church planting.
This study seeks to pick up the world-wide and German debate on health which is already under way and to ask where the future challenges and opportunities lie for church and Christian social care in Germany. The document is also intended as a contribution to the 2008-2010 “Week for Life”, which is to focus on questions of the Christian understanding of health and healing and the healing dimension of faith, all under the theme of “Well or sick – loved by God”.
Dr. Gisela Schneider, Director, DIFAEM
Translated into English by WCC language services. With kind support of EMW, the Association of Protestant Churches and Missions in Germany.
Translated into English by WCC language services. With kind support of EMW, the Association of Protestant Churches and Missions in Germany.
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