The Theology Of Illness by Jean-Claude Larchet
This book offers an Orthodox Christian account of illness as both a consequence of the fallen condition and a potential means of spiritual purification and participation in Christ’s suffering; it critiques reductive medical or moralizing explanations and insists that physical and spiritual dimensions of disease must be addressed together. Drawing on patristic sources, liturgical practice, and pastoral experience, it examines prayer, repentance, sacramental care, ascetic discipline, and the compassion of the Church as means of healing, while recognizing the limits of human understanding and the mystery of divine providence in suffering.
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