Tag: Doctors of the Church
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Doctorum Ecclesiae: The medical clerics of the Diocese of Bath and Wells, England
Adam S. KomorowskiSang Ik SongLimerick, Ireland It is difficult to remember that in medieval and early modern Europe the church was often the locus of medical practice and that medicine and religion had a symbiotic co-existence.1 Many of the early Christian Church Fathers, some given the title Doctors of the Church, saw their roles to include…