{"product_id":"heal-thyself-joel-james-shuman-9780195154696","title":"Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine, and the Distortion of Christianity","description":"In recent years, a movement stressing a causal relationship between spirituality and good health has captured the public imagination. Told that research demonstrates that people of strong faith are healthier, physicians and clergy alike urge us to become more religious.\u003cbr\u003e The religion and health movement, as it has become known, has attracted its fair share of skeptics. While most root their criticism in science or secularism, the authors of \u003cem\u003eHeal Thyself\u003c\/em\u003e, one a theological ethicist, the other a physician, instead challenge the basic precepts of the movement from the standpoint of Christian theology.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eHeal Thyself\u003c\/em\u003e argues that popular culture's fascination with the health benefits of religion reflects not the renaissance of religious tradition but the powerful combination of consumer capitalism and self-interested individualism. A faith-for-health exchange misrepresents and devalues the true meaning of faith.\u003cbr\u003e For Christians, being religious does not mean enlisting faith as a vehicle to get what we want--be it health or wealth--but rather learning by faith to want the right things at the right time, and to live with a spirit of gratitude and hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joel James Shuman, Keith G. Meador\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019515469X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195154696\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.76w x 0.83d","brand":"Joel James Shuman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44491349098751,"sku":"9780195154696","price":81.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_97b59b96-b75c-4d23-a647-6be1ece5e700.jpg?v=1699450707","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/heal-thyself-joel-james-shuman-9780195154696","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}