#120 Healing – a missing link in theology
With Dr Daniel O'Neill
Health is the great global connector, and of central importance in God’s purposes, but is often neglected in theology, medicine, and the church’s mission.
A health-centric systematic and biblical theology will be presented to challenge the theological categories which often neglect a healing element.
This is followed by a description of health which transcends biomedical categories giving practitioners an enhanced perspective of their important work, and demonstrates the way health and healing can serve as signs of the dwelling place of God.
We will conclude with a call to actualize health in transcendent anticipation of the eschatological hope.
Online Courses & Journals
- Christian Journal for Global Health - A scholarly, open-access journal on global health from a Christian perspective
- Christian Global Health in Perspective Course
- Lausanne Global Classroom - Health For All Nations
- Healers and Preachers: Coming Together to Foster Movements in All Peoples. A NEW special issue of Mission Frontiers
Articles & Books
- O’Neill, D.W. Transcending Medicine: An Applied Theology Regarding Disease and Global Health. A commentary on which this Webinar is based. Available by request
- O’Neill, D.W. Toward a fuller view: The effect of globalized theology on an understanding of health and healing. Missiology 45(2), April 2017
- Duck, R.C. Recovering Liturgies of Healing and Reconciliation. In Worship of the Whole People of God. Westminster: John Knox Press, 2013
- O'Neill, D. W., & Snodderly, E. (Eds.) All Creation Groans:Toward a Theology of Disease and Global Health. 2021. Eugene, OR: Pickwick
- Black Death Inspires Zwingli's Plague Hymn. Christian History (1984). Issue 4
Dr Daniel O'Neill
Daniel O’Neill, MD, MTh is a physician-theologian and managing editor of Christian Journal for Global Health, Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and holds a master’s degree in biblical & theological studies from Bethel Seminary. He has served on health and development projects among impoverished or displaced populations. He is a co-founder of Health for All Nations and author and co-editor of the book All Creation Groans: Toward a Theology of Disease and Global Health.
