Reviews for Is There a God in Health Care?: Toward a New Spirituality of Medicine

The average rating for Is There a God in Health Care?: Toward a New Spirituality of Medicine based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-01-24 00:00:00 Samuel azucena Azucena As a Christian, I have been frustrated to see many people of the same faith who seem to reflexively dismiss that global warming is happening. I wanted to know more so that I could hopefully help people to reconsider this dismissal. Hayhoe and Farley's book definitely satisfied that desire. The authors are always firm about the reality of global warming, but never condescending. Doubts about climate change and the human contribution to this change are evenly and clearly addressed. They seem to have anticipated a lot of the arguments and quibbles people might have with global warming. I also really appreciated that the authors did not take shortcuts in their arguments. When I came to the section where they explain why Christians should care about global warming, they surprised me. I've seen Bible verses quoted about why we should be stewards of the Earth and that's what I expected again. But Hayhoe and Farley acknowledge that there is no explicit mandate given in the Bible for Christians to take care of the earth. Rather, they argue that we should work to combat global warming because it is the wise and compassionate thing to do. This is an example of the clear-eyed approach that is taken throughout the book. The book is well-organized and includes many helpful graphs and images to support the text. (It's actually a very good-looking book overall.) I know I will be referring to it in the future and already have plans of either lending my copy or giving a copy to others. It's just such a pleasure to encounter a book that so gracefully transcends the polarizing nature of debate that too often surrounds global warming and Christianity.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-08-01 00:00:00 Mario Fiore This is a very interesting book because it talks about climate change from a Christian perspective. Being a Christian myself, I was very surprised to find that many Christians think climate change/global warming is not true and/or is made up by liberals. This book is written by a couple where the wife is a scientist and the husband is a pastor, so there is a lot of data, but it's presented in an easy to read way. I thought it covered everything very well and was written with a non-scientist reader in mind. The overall theme of the book, which I completely agree with, is that as Christians we should be trying to take care of the Earth God created - whether you believe the statistics or not.