The Church in Sickness and in Health

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer
1. Contagion of the Jews: Metaphorical and Rhetorical Uses of Sickness, Plague and Disease in Pseudo-Hegesippus Carson Bay
2. Bede on Bodily Sickness, Episcopal Identity and Monastic Asceticism Jessica Collett
3. Healing Body and Soul in Early Medieval Europe: Medical Remedies with Christian Elements Claire Burridge
4. Plague and Popular Revival: Ecclesiastical Authorities, Civic Religion and the Bianchi Devotions in 1399 Alexandra Lee
5. Preaching during Plague Epidemics in Early Modern Germany, c.1520–1618 Martin Christ
6. A Sixteenth-Century Clergyman and Physician: Timothy Bright's Dual Approach to Melancholia Emily Betz
7. Godly Preaching, in Sickness and Ill-Health, in Seventeenth-Century England (President's Prize) Robert W. Daniel
8. Healthcare and Catholic Enlightenment in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Stanisław Witecki
9. Moral Sick Notes: Medical Exemptions to Religious Fasting in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World George A. Klaeren
10. Pain as a Spiritual Barometer of Health: A Sign of Divine Love, 1780–1850 Angela Platt
11. Caring for the Sick in Hamburg: Amalie Sieveking and the 'dormant strength' of Christian Women Andrew Kloes
12. Health and Sickness as Reality and Metaphor in the Oratory Parish of F. W. Faber, 1849–63 Melissa Wilkinson
13. Ministering to Body and Soul: Medical Missions and the Jewish Community in Nineteenth-Century London (Kennedy Prize) Jemima Jarman
14. The Church's Promotion of Public Health in the Southern Part of the Nineteenth-Century Austro-Hungarian Empire Branka Gabrić and Darija Damjanović Barišić
15. 'It is well with the child': Changing Views on Protestant Missionary Children's Health, 1870s–1930s Hugh Morrison
16. Caring for the Sick and Dying in Early Twentieth-Century Anglo-Catholic Parishes Dan D. Cruickshank
17. 'Alleviating the Sum of Human Suffering': The Origins, Attributes and Appeal of Hospital Sunday, 1859–1914 Roger Ottewill
18. Hospital Sunday and the new National Health Service: An End to the 'Voluntary Spirit' in England? Robert Piggott
19. From Plato to Pentecostalism: Sickness and Deliverance in the Theology of Derek Prince Brian Stanley
20. Masks vs. God and Country: The Conflict between Public Health and Christian Nationalism Brittany Acors.