All Creation Groans

In a suffering world reeling from global pandemics and health disparities, it is high time to think theologically about the devastating experience of disease, and to address our God-inspired responsibility to understand its origins and engage in its management. In a fragmented world, we need a unifying and integrated perspective on people in communities embedded in a fractured ecology. In an academic world blind to the spiritual world and imbalanced toward technical solutions, the global church must articulate a contemporary metanarrative that is moral, practical, and deeply transformational. All Creation Groans brings together multiple perspectives for a compelling global-health approach to the pathologies of the world as a part of the missio Dei. The authors paint a unifying perspective on God's healing intentions in creation, redemption, and consummation, and the opposing nature-corrupting effects of the rebellion of created moral agents. It is a fresh call for the global church to engage in aligning with God's healing action for eternally sustainable global health.

Dr O'Neill is a physician-theologian who practices whole-person Family Medicine in Connecticut and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. With a master's degree in theological and biblical studies from Bethel Seminary, he has researched and written on an applied global theology of health. He has served as interim physician at Hospital Vozandes Del Oriente in Ecuador, Medical Director of Medical Ministry International, and on multiple health and development projects among impoverished and displaced populations in Latin America, West Africa, North India, and the Middle East. He is a founding board member of Health for All Nations and the founder and Managing Editor of Christian Journal for Global Health and is co-facilitator of the Evidence Working Group of the muilti-faith Moral and Spiritual Imperative to End Extreme Poverty, convened by the World Bank.

Beth Snodderly is President of William Carey International University in Pasadena, California, Vice President of the Southwest Region of the Evangelical Missiological Society, and became editor of the World Christian Foundations degree study program following the death of Ralph D. Winter.