HEALING IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD

Exploration of the understanding of health and healing in the gospels and other early Christian traditions, and of Jesus’ role as healer, in comparison to other contemporaneous Greco-Roman religious traditions (e.g., Galen, the author of the most influential medical textbook in the western world, and the Asclepius cult, the world’s first system of holistic medicine).Prerequisite: EN 125 or equivalent.