This collection of essays serves to give us an underpinning for the class as a whole insofar as they explore broad questions of the relationship between religion as a concept and medicine as a profession. To that end, the authors share some common concerns – the meaning of health and illness, both technically and existentially; the relationship between body and soul; and the responsiveness of medicine as a profession to non-physical elements of human existence.
Walter Rauschenbusch (5) offers a prayer for doctors and nurses that reflects optimism regarding the potential of technology to be waged as a weapon against sin. The second paragraph especially shows evidence of a broader worldview:
We rejoice in the tireless daring with whic
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