Faith, Medicine, and Healing

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-52
Author(s):  
Courtney S. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Moral Culture ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
Moral Reality ◽  
Ethical Rationale ◽  
The Church

This chapter develops from the revealed realities and moral culture formed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a theological and ethical rationale for the healing professions as callings within which the moral reality of healing is conceptualized and enacted. Healing, which is characterized by restoring wholeness, relationships, witnessing the patient’s narrative, the potency of touch, and empathetic solidarity, provides moral convergence and continuity between communal rituals and practices oriented by faith convictions and communal reliance on medical interventions. An evolving moral reality of healing is represented through a typology of three broad patterns of relationship between faith convictions and medical practice that emerged historically in LDS culture: faith against medicine, faith and medicine, and faith in medicine.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Courtney S. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Moral Culture ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Moral Reality ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
The Church

This chapter constructs a moral reality of the ethics and moral culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) by (1) identifying critical and distinctive pre-moral convictions that manifest the revealed realities of the LDS religious worldview and (2) providing a substantive exposition of formative principles, values, and virtues of LDS ethics that constitute a restored morality. The pre-moral values highlighted include a progressive salvation narrative, the harmony of religion and biomedicine, embodiment, and family. These values are supplemented by five core ethical principles, including love, hospitality to strangers, covenant, justice, and respect for agency and self-determination. These principles display moral continuities with the moral values and ethical teachings of other philosophical, religious, and cultural traditions.

Utilizing Brief Spiritual Assessments with Clients who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Gordon Limb ◽  
David Hodge ◽  
Richard Alboroto
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Church Culture ◽  
Spiritual Assessment ◽  
Mental Health Settings ◽  
Consistency Strengths ◽  
Growing Churches ◽  
The Church

 In recent years social work has increasingly focused on spirituality and religion as key elements of cultural competency.  The Joint Commission—the nation's largest health care accrediting organization—as well as many other accrediting bodies require spiritual assessments in hospitals and many other mental health settings. Consequently, specific intervention strategies have been fostered in order to provide the most appropriate interventions for religious clients. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the fourth largest and one of the faster growing churches in the United States.  In an effort to facilitate cultural competence with clients who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ, a brief spiritual assessment instrument was developed.  This mixed-method study asked experts in Church culture (N = 100) to identify the degree of cultural consistency, strengths, and limitations of the brief spiritual assessment instrument. Results indicate that the framework is consistent with Church culture and a number of practice-oriented implications are offered.

Pkejudice and Racial Identity among White Latter-Day Saint College Students: An Exploratory Study

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 1025-1026
Author(s):  
Timothy B. Smith ◽  
Richard N. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Racial Tolerance ◽  
The Church

Previous research has documented increases in racial tolerance of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons or LDS). In the present study, 211 LDS college students held predominantly tolerant attitudes on racial identity which were similar to those of 78 non-LDS peers; however, the LDS subjects expressed more naivete, curiosity, and confusion regarding black people and black culture.

Translation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Taves
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
The Third ◽  
Book Of Mormon ◽  
The Church

In 1823, Joseph Smith (1805–44), a farmer and treasure seeker in Upstate New York, had a vision in which a personage told him of ancient golden plates buried in a hillside, which Mormons claim he recovered, translated, and published as the Book of Mormon (1830) and which led to the founding of a restored church (1830). The revelation to Smith that Mormons now refer to as “D&C 3,” that is, the third revelation in the current edition of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' canonized Doctrine and Covenants, provides our first direct window into the emergence of early Mormonism. Although there is evidence to suggest that Smith received what he and others viewed as revelations prior to this one, this is the first revelation that was written down at about the time it was received. This chapter centers on that revelation, using it to reconstruct not only the event itself but the events that led up to and followed from it, as they likely appeared to those who were involved at the time.

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