Earth, Dream, and Healing: The Integration of Materia and Psyche in the Ancient World

Pettis, Jeffrey B.

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“…To this same sector of professional medicine can be ascribed most of the activities carried out in the sanctuaries of Asclepius, which, in the ancient Mediterranean world, served as a religious center for healing. Influenced likely by the methods and practices of Hippocrates, the Asclepian cult used herbal formulae and medicinal applications intricately connected with cult rituals and worship (Pettis 2006). Collectively, Homer (e.g., Iliad 4.…”

Section: Health and Illness In Paul's Worldmentioning

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Ethnomedical Anthropology and Paul's “Thorn” (2 Corinthians 12:7)

Glessner

2017

Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture

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In 2 Corinthians 12:7–10, Paul confesses to being beset by “a thorn in the flesh” connected in some way with a prior ecstatic experience (vv 2–4), which he summons “the Lord” on three occasions to remove (v 8). The intersecting topoi of this passage—illness, pain, healing, altered states of consciousness ( Pilch 2004 ; Goodman 1990 ), strength and weakness, the role of non-human forces in human illness, explanations of/for illness, and the (non)efficacy of prayer for healing—raise a complex of questions that ought not be answered in isolation. In pursuit of answers to such questions regarding illness and healing in the “symbolic world” of Paul and the community he addressed, I employ here conceptual tools garnered from the field of ethnomedical anthropology. I offer fresh readings of the dynamics at work in Paul's “thorn” discourse—a key component of the rhetorical culmination of Paul's speech act designed to (re-)assert his credentials as God's apostle to the gathered people at Corinth ( Neufeld 2000 )—while making reference throughout to its immediate literary context, the so-called “letter of tears” (2 Cor. 10–13), as well as to its relationship to the structure of ideas on illness and healing in Paul's larger epistolary corpus (e.g. Galatians 4:13–15; 1 Corinthians 11:27–34; 12:8–10, 28, 29–30).

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Section: Health and Illness In Paul's Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnomedical Anthropology and Paul's “Thorn” (2 Corinthians 12:7)

Glessner

2017

Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture

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Asklepian Dreaming and the Spirit of Transformational Healing: Linking the Placebo Response to Therapeutic Uses of Self

Collins

2012

J Relig Health

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Asklepian medicine - as an archetype of healing - was underpinned by therapeutic uses of self, which, if understood, could be beneficial to modern healthcare. It is being proposed in this article that therapeutic uses of self from instrumental, authentic and transpersonal perspectives could support the process of endogenous healing. Such therapeutic uses of self could play a pivotal role in activating and enhancing the potential for placebo responses, with spiritual significance.

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As revoluções da alma: sonho e prodiágnosis no tratado hipocrático Da dieta

Alsina¹

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Ribeiro, pela grande amizade, pela interlocução, pela constante preocupação, pelas inúmeras bibliografias compartilhadas. À Professora Beatriz de Paoli, pelos artigos gentilmente cedidos e pela disposição gentil.Aos afetos, pelo carinho, pela paciência e pela torcida na saída da caverna.Aos que não mais estão entre nós, mas que deixaram marca indelével no que eu sou: minha avó Segunda, Enrique Martinez, Leopoldo Bartolomé.

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Earth, Dream, and Healing: The Integration of Materia and Psyche in the Ancient World

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Ethnomedical Anthropology and Paul's “Thorn” (2 Corinthians 12:7)

Ethnomedical Anthropology and Paul's “Thorn” (2 Corinthians 12:7)

Asklepian Dreaming and the Spirit of Transformational Healing: Linking the Placebo Response to Therapeutic Uses of Self

As revoluções da alma: sonho e prodiágnosis no tratado hipocrático Da dieta

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