Health and Spirituality: men do not live only by bread
Keywords:
science, health, spirituality.Abstract
The investigation of spiritual and religious factors The investigation of spiritual and religious factors in health is clearly justified and is clinically relevant because of the need to find ways to improve the health of the population. There are several conflicting assumptions about this link science-spirituality. To point out some, Friedrich Schleiermacher (1862, theologian, philosopher) claimed that it was not possible to know God through reason but that feeling and intuition were the best ways to know God. On the other hand, William James (1902, philosopher of Harvard University) founded the “psychology of religion”, which is the branch of applied psychology to the science of religion, and scandalized the scientific world when he defended the practice of mental healing therapies and spiritual ones without God. This article presents a review of various foundations associated with the evolution of health sciences to the field of spiritual knowledge from the perspective of Christianity (the teachings of Jesus) and some basic concepts useful for understanding our humanity, as to face smugly transdisciplinary work is needed, less top-down and less fragmented between science, health and spirituality.References
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