Lääkärin uskonto

von Thomas Browne

78 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Can a physician trust both the evidence of the body and the claims of Christian faith? Speaking in an insistently personal voice, an educated doctor examines belief through the habits of observation, doubt and disciplined enquiry that shape his professional life. His meditation refuses to treat science and religion as simple adversaries, asking instead where reason can lead, where human knowledge reaches its limits, and whether the natural world may disclose divine wisdom. Medical practice gives these questions their immediate force. Anatomical observation, encounters with patients, illness and death bring mortality out of abstraction, while prayer, worship and solitude turn the enquiry inward. Against the religious background of England and the Church of England, the speaker considers conscience, doctrinal disagreement and religious identity without losing sight of tolerance, charity and friendship. Pride, providence, resurrection, salvation and the nature of the soul emerge not as detached topics, but as matters tested against lived experience and the physician's awareness of what medicine can-and cannot-know. Structured as a continuous first-person prose meditation in two parts, the work joins autobiographical self-examination to a searching religious-philosophical essay. Its distinctive tension lies in the movement between close professional observation and expansive theological reflection: the body is studied through medicine, while mortality and belief press beyond the boundaries of empirical certainty. Dreams and inner consciousness further complicate an enquiry governed by faith, reason and intellectual humility. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• ISBN: 9789378419126
• Sprache: Finnisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.11.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Alpha Edition