Persecution in the Early Church and Nigerian Church

The Church and healing, (Studies in Church History, No. 19)

W. J. SHEILS (editor), The Church and healing, (Studies in Church History, No. 19), Oxford, Basil Blackwell for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 440, £19.50. This collection of essays represents a thoughtful, stimulating, and generally successful cooperative attempt by medical and ecclesiastical historians to study an important topic, the relationship between the Christi...

Computationalism, The Church-Turing Thesis, and the Church-Turing Fallacy

The Church–Turing Thesis (CTT) is often employed in arguments for computationalism. I scrutinize the most prominent of such arguments in light of recent work on CTT and argue that they are unsound. Although CTT does nothing to support computationalism, it is not irrelevant to it. By eliminating misunderstandings about the relationship between CTT and computationalism, we deepen our appreciation...

The Church and Medicine

MY first duty is to refer to the retirement of three members of the visiting staff. Dr. J. E. Morison, who joined us in 1948, is one of the few members of staff to retire before the age limit. He leaves us to take charge of another laboratory in the hospital service, after a fine recordl of brilliant and painstaking research. Our two senior physicians also retire. Dr. S. B. Boyd-Campbell, a son...

Radicals in the church.

The Organization of the Caritative Ministry in the Early Church

Caritative ministry is one of the earliest types of ministry engaged by the Church. It began as early as the middle of the First Century in the Jerusalem Church as mentioned in Acts 6. Ever since then, this ministry developed into a well-organized operation catering to the needy and the poor. It became one of the most important ministries of the Church throughout the entire history . of Christi...