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In the West, we tend to frame health in terms of the absence of illness. With this way of thinking about health, if something goes wrong, we go to a doctor or a psychiatrist so they can identify what the broken part is, whether it’s a tumor in your lung or some kind of mental health challenge. You get a diagnosis and then you get treatment from health care professionals, which helps you to overcome that.
But the biblical understanding of health is quite different.
His health obviously wasn’t that of a well-functioning body; it was the kind of health Wendell Berry describes as wholeness. . One of my...
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