June 6, 2003

'Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine, and the Distortion of Christianity'

By NINA C. AYOUB

Idolatry is a strong word. But Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine, and the Distortion of Christianity (Oxford University Press) is strong stuff. It is a forceful critique of a phenomenon that for many people has only positive implications.

In recent years, note the book's authors, there have been hundreds of studies, of varied rigor and method, on a possible correlation between religious belief and practice and good health. However, for Joel James Shuman, a theologian at King's

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