Luke, the Christian physician of Antioch.

  • Adolf von Harnack
Date:
[1893]
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Credit: Luke, the Christian physician of Antioch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    second century. Marcion would recognise no physician among the apostolic heroes, because in his overflowing Christian enthusiasm, he held it as unchristian to busy oneself about the human body. Thus, in the Epistle to the Colossians, he struck out the words, the beloved Physician standing beside the name of Luke. But this Christianity, in opposition to Nature, which was a revisal even of the old records, was rejected by the Church at large; Luke continued to be to her the beloved Physician, and as such the living token at the same time that Christianity and Medical Science can well be combined. Even in the history of the Church, however, there have been times when all Natural Science and Medicine were almost condemned as profane learning. At such times it was of no little value for her to remember that in the New Testament there appears a beloved Physician, and that he is the historian of the Virgin Mary and of the Lord, of Peter and of Paul. Thus the Physician Luke has carried on, even after his death, a quiet but powerful mission. He has pro- tected in the Church his Science of Healing, and triumphantly averted from the Catholic Church the final consequences of a Christianity opposed to Nature. OLA800W. rm.NTKD BY ALRX. MACDOl'OAlb
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