Review article
What's the Point of Health? An Article on the Christian Conception of Health in the Period of Post-modernism
Ante Mateljan
; Catholic Faculty of Theology University of Split
Abstract
In this article the author gives an insight into two ways of the
conception of health: one arising from the post-modern culture and
revealing itself in vrorshipping youth and strength, and the other
proposed by the Christian theological anthropology. Having in rnind
the eschatological vision of time in which the common and individual
history of salvation takes place, i, e. God's history with people, the
aim of which is the realization of the world and man in the full and
free communion with God, the author explains that the key-category
for the evaluation of health in the Christian vrorld view is actually the
category of love, because only the love given as a gift is able to go
beyond every disease and suffering, even beyond death itself. This,
however, means that health makes so rnuch sense as it serves the
true love.
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Hrčak ID:
38789
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Publication date:
21.12.2004.
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