Public Worship, Health Care, and Illness in Early Christianity
Session Description
Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity preached and prayed about illness, pain, and health care and shaped practices of baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and funerals in response to illness and injury, including during pandemics—all so that we can learn from their pastoral, theological, and practical instincts as we seek to be faithful witnesses to Christ in our own globally diverse contexts.
Conference Title
2025 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Event Date
2-6-2025
Event Type
Panel/Conversation
Type (recording/text)
Recording
Subject Area
Worship
Topic
History of Christianity
Keywords:
public worship, illness, health care, early church
Upload Date
6-2-2025 12:00 AM
Recommended Citation
Ayoola, Adejoke Bolanle; Kinghorn, Warren; Reid, Satrina; Rhee, Helen; and Wardell, Isaac, "Public Worship, Health Care, and Illness in Early Christianity" (2025). Symposium on Worship Archive. 11.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/uni-cicw-symposium/2025/sessions/11
Public Worship, Health Care, and Illness in Early Christianity
Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity preached and prayed about illness, pain, and health care and shaped practices of baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and funerals in response to illness and injury, including during pandemics—all so that we can learn from their pastoral, theological, and practical instincts as we seek to be faithful witnesses to Christ in our own globally diverse contexts.