Jesus the Village Psychiatrist

by Capps, Donald

• ISBN13: 9780664232405
• ISBN10: 066423240X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-07
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

All of the Gospels and the whole of Christian tradition depict Jesus as a miraculous healer who can cure blindness, leprosy, hemorrhages, and a host of other maladies. But how did Jesus actually heal? In this fascinating book, Donald Capps argues that Jesus was keenly attuned to the psychological causes of illness and through his ministry brought healing to body and soul alike.Capps argues that one of Jesus' purposes was to heal people from mental illnesses, which people in the ancient world would have seen manifested in physical ailments such as blindness, paralysis, or other symptoms. Fully engaged in historical Jesus scholarship, Capps carefully examines Jesus' deep concern for both physical and emotional health and shows how his proclamation of the kingdom of God envisioned a world without mental illness.

Author Biography

Donald Capps is William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Somatoform Disorders
From Psychosomatic Illness to Somatoform Disorders	p. 3
A Short History of Hysteria	p. 15
Freud's Writings on Conversion Disorder	p. 27
Jesus Cures
Two Paralyzed Men	p. 37
Two Blind Men	p. 57
The Demon-Possessed Boy	p. 81
Jairus's Daughter and the Hemorrhaging Woman	p. 105
Epilogue: The Woman Who Cared for Jesus	p. 133
References	p. 137
Index	p. 141
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