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C. Ben Mitchell

The Christian Origins of Hospitals

By C. Ben Mitchell, The Bible + Culture / November 16, 2020

Contrary to Kevin Drum’s blog at Mother Jones hospitals, at least historically speaking, are not secular institutions. In fact, the modern hospital system owes its existence to people of faith. Christians have been leaders in medicine and the building of hospitals because their founder, Jesus of Nazareth, healed the sick during his ministry on earth …

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The Bible + Culture: An Introduction

By C. Ben Mitchell, The Bible + Culture / November 16, 2020

Western civilization is indebted to the Judeo-Christian tradition for the ideas of human dignity and human rights, innovation in science and medicine, habits of humanitarian charity and universal education, and its rich contribution to the arts.  As the prodigious Jewish scholar Jacob Neusner has written: “Religion has written much of the history of the West.”  …

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