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TINKER, GEORGE E.

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MEDICINE AND MIRACLE: A COMPARISON OF TWO HEALING TYPES IN THE LATE HELLENISTIC WORLD (GREECE).

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Title/Author:	MEDICINE AND MIRACLE: A COMPARISON OF TWO HEALING TYPES IN THE LATE HELLENISTIC WORLD (GREECE)./
Author:	TINKER, GEORGE E.
Description:	185 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-04, Section: A, page: 1117.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International44-04A.
Subject:	Religion, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8318830

MEDICINE AND MIRACLE: A COMPARISON OF TWO HEALING TYPES IN THE LATE HELLENISTIC WORLD (GREECE).
TINKER, GEORGE E.

MEDICINE AND MIRACLE: A COMPARISON OF TWO HEALING TYPES IN THE LATE HELLENISTIC WORLD (GREECE). - 185 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-04, Section: A, page: 1117.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Graduate Theological Union, 1983.

Most modern historians implicitly deal with physicians and miracle workers in antiquity as discrete phenomena. To all appearances, medicine had already become an incipient science and was firmly rooted in the thought modes of Greek philosophy with its notions of natural causation, while miracle working lived in the world of the Mediterranian religious experience with its emphasis on divine causation. Once the historian makes such an assumption, it is a rather casual leap to the conclusion that a great deal of animosity must have surfaced in the polemic between the two types of healing. This dissertation argues that in actuality they lived in the same world and functioned, perforce, with the same worldview. In spite of obvious differences, the two seem to have co-existed more or less peacefully. Their differences rarely spilled over into open polemic.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017471
Religion, History of.

MEDICINE AND MIRACLE: A COMPARISON OF TWO HEALING TYPES IN THE LATE HELLENISTIC WORLD (GREECE).
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520 $a Most modern historians implicitly deal with physicians and miracle workers in antiquity as discrete phenomena. To all appearances, medicine had already become an incipient science and was firmly rooted in the thought modes of Greek philosophy with its notions of natural causation, while miracle working lived in the world of the Mediterranian religious experience with its emphasis on divine causation. Once the historian makes such an assumption, it is a rather casual leap to the conclusion that a great deal of animosity must have surfaced in the polemic between the two types of healing. This dissertation argues that in actuality they lived in the same world and functioned, perforce, with the same worldview. In spite of obvious differences, the two seem to have co-existed more or less peacefully. Their differences rarely spilled over into open polemic.
520 $a Of course, their healing techniques differed from one another extensively, although there was more similarity than some moderns have thought. It is usually clear at a glance whether a particular healer was a physician or a variety of miracle worker. But once that judgement has been made, the careful observer begins to discover that techniques typical of one were often borrowed, with or without modifications, by the other. Physicians sometimes felt the need to explain in philosophical language how dreams or amulets worked as healing aids, but they did indeed use them. Likewise a miracle worker or healing god often adopted physician-like techniques.
520 $a The most important contribution of this essay is the assessment of the social location of various healers in the late Hellenistic world which follows from these assumptions. To differentiate between physicians and miracle workers rather misses the point. Our understanding of healing in antiquity is better served by recognizing different kinds of miracle workers and different kinds of physicians. In fact the kind of miracle healing which took place in the healing temple cults was different, in terms of social function, from the usually itinerant, charismatic healer. The one was an establishment phenomenon, participating in the central power structure of its society. The other was an anti-establishment, peripheral phenomenon. A similar distinction can be made between different kinds of physicians, the well schooled philosopher physician and the lower class popular physician who emerged in large numbers in the first century, C.E.
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