Department of History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Department of Pharmacology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
J Relig Health. 2021 Dec;60(6):3907-3914. doi: 10.1007/s10943-021-01265-y. Epub 2021 Apr 19.
Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim (1493-1541), known as Paracelsus, was a German-Swiss Renaissance man. His interests included alchemy and medicine. During the early 1500s, he worked as a physician, introducing mineral-based therapies to treat ailments. He is credited with developing the first recipe for laudanum, a powerful opium-based pain medication. He had radical beliefs, claiming that supreme knowledge could be reached by observing nature, not by reading books. He expressed rebellious opinions on religious topics and, though devoted Christian, criticized the Catholic Church, preaching that the spirit of Christianity dwells in the human soul and not within the church walls. Paracelsus' efforts to "renovate" the expression of the Christian faith by limiting the ritual and augmenting the spirituality among believers are presented.
特奥弗拉斯托斯·邦巴斯图斯·冯·霍恩海姆（1493-1541），又名帕拉塞尔苏斯，是一位德瑞混血的文艺复兴时期的人物。他的兴趣包括炼金术和医学。在 16 世纪早期，他曾担任医师，引入基于矿物质的疗法来治疗疾病。他被认为开发了第一个鸦片类止痛药水合氯醛的配方。他有着激进的信仰，声称通过观察自然，而不是阅读书籍，就可以获得至高的知识。他对宗教主题表达了叛逆的观点，尽管他是虔诚的基督教徒，但他批评天主教会，宣扬基督教的精神存在于人类的灵魂中，而不是在教堂的围墙内。文中介绍了帕拉塞尔苏斯通过限制仪式和增强信徒的灵性来“革新”基督教信仰表达的努力。
