THE IMPACT OF BYZANTINE CHRISTIAN THOUGHT ON MEDICINE
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Theology, Ethics, Christianity, Christian Life
| Author: | Lazar Puhalo | ISBN: | 1230000157217 |
| Publisher: | All Saints Monastery | Publication: | August 2, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Lazar Puhalo |
| ISBN: | 1230000157217 |
| Publisher: | All Saints Monastery |
| Publication: | August 2, 2013 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
This scholarly study reveals how the Orthodox Christian struggle against Gnosticism in the first four centuries A.D. saved the ancient Greek medical texts and helped advance medicine. It also contains the lives of the three women Holy Unmercinary Physicians, whose histories have been totally neglected since the fall of Constantinople.
This scholarly study reveals how the Orthodox Christian struggle against Gnosticism in the first four centuries A.D. saved the ancient Greek medical texts and helped advance medicine. It also contains the lives of the three women Holy Unmercinary Physicians, whose histories have been totally neglected since the fall of Constantinople.
