A Conversation on Health and Healing Centenary Year of Medical Education 1918-2018 Christian Medical College, Vellore

includes index and biblioraphy

Waiting for God : Towards a Theology of Health and Wholeness............1 A response to the Keynote Address by Professor Nicholas John wood Waiting for God : Towards a Theology of Health and Wholeness .............28 1. Reconceptualization of Healing Ministry Minority within Minority, If we Talk the Talk, we have to walk the Walk................47 I was Stranger : Towards a Theology of Hospitality ..........58 Understanding of Health and Healing in Religion context of India .....75 Disruptie agenda and the Kingdom of God reflections on John Chapter 9.......82 Suffering, Healing and Meaning of Life ........90 2. Healing ministry as a Vocation A personal search for Deeper Meaning ......103 Healing and Wholeness...............111 Healing-my Passion and Vocation .....................119 Lessons from Jesus Ministry of Healing ................127 An Expected Career and an Unexpected Vocation ............134 Vocation : An Allied health Scientist`s Perspective...........141 3. Healing ministry and Counselling Possibilities of Pastoral Care and Counselling .........155 Not Cured but Healed ............161 Mission of God and Pastoral Counselling .........170 Theology of Healing .............180 A theology of Health ..........186 Mission of God and Pastoral Counselling ..........192 Listening to One Body, many parts and Myriad Stories ............198 Healing : A pastoro-Praxis Reading ..........206 4. Identity and Accountability in Healing Ministry Identity, Credibility, Responsibility ..................213 Towards a Renewal in the Ministry of Healing ............223 Identity- Credibility - Accountability .............242 Accountability and Christian Healthcare ..............246 5. Patient perspectives about Healing A patient`s Understanding of Healing ..............261 My Journey from Brokennes towards Healing .............267 From Take up your bed and walk to my Grace is Sufficient for you...............272 The care- Giver`s Cross..........277 6. Pastoral Care and Healing Ministry Biblical Interpretaton in Healing ministry ..........291 To Serve: A Counter Pedagogy of To be Served ........298 Spiritual care through healing Communities ..........305 Ministry to the Dying ...........315 Being and Becoming a Community of God`s People ................320 Inclusive Hospitality of God`s Kingdom ..............330 7. Conversation A centenary thanksgiving Sermon...............352