The Christian Perspective of Spirituality and Ethics in Healthcare

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The Christian perspective of the nature of spirituality and ethics in contrast to the
perspective of postmodern relativism within health care.
I believe that, spirituality has been playing the role of an important idea in diverse
aspects such as health care, religion, psychology and parenting. It serves as a measure to help
individuals in reshaping themselves according to the image which is anticipated by God.
Christianity religion is found to be the ones who developed the hospitals, and there are
various Christian backgrounds which performed the same, which includes religions from
Catholics, to Methodists, to Presbyterians, and to the Moravian Brethren (Kadar et al., 2015).
I came to understand that, Christian perspective of the nature of Spirituality is defined as the
procedure of spiritual development of a follower of Jesus Christ in order to validate and fulfil
his/her Christian life expectancy in the modern world which involves the collaboration and
merging together the important beliefs based on the Christian realities and also the
knowledge of the living under the presence of God, his elegance and love in an individual’s
daily life. the ethics of the Christian culture is found to guide the nature of living and
existence of the people and guides them with the knowledge of selecting the right and
understanding the difference between right and wrong (Jupp, 2016). My knowledge states
that, Postmodern relativism has major impact on the practice of care giving and health care
service. The values and ethics of a community alters the practice of care giving and the
healthcare professionals are bound to provide care according to the ethical and spiritual
believes to address a patient.
What scientism is and describe two of the main arguments against it.
From the knowledge I have gained, I believe that Scientism is the knowledge
regarding the scientific method which can be applied in order to answer all questions which
includes the problems which re-count to standards, significance, and existence of God
(Stenmark, 2018). Ethical values and religion may be acceptable, but only if they are

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understood to be inherently subjective and regarded as private matters of opinion (De Ridder,
Peels & van Woudenberg, 2018). According to me, in the concept of scientism, the
entitlement that the ethical values and religious assumptions can be as accurate as science and
hence they should be acknowledged like the scientific certainties which might be an
indication of racism and narrow-mindedness (Nickles, 2018).
Scientism is divided into two aspects which are:
Strong scientism: strong scientism suggests knowledge regarding anything which is
factual and which has rational justification and it has been appealed scientifically by the
means of scientifically testing and is used according to the guidelines of scientific
methodology (Mizrahi, 2017).
Weak scientism: Weak scientism recognizes facts which is apart from facts related to
science, conceding them with approximately minimal rational prominence regardless of the
fact that they are not supported by science. Weak scientism suggests the fact that science is
found to be one of the greatest influential area of human knowledge (Peels, 2018).
The two arguments on scientism is that; Scientism is one of a self-defeating, and it
can circumvent being self-defeating which is possible only by becoming insignificant and
monotonous and the another argument is that the laws of nature which according to science
explains any occurrences cannot deliver us with a detailed and accurate clarification of the
reality.
What is ultimate reality?
As per the knowledge obtained, I believe, ultimate reality is the one which surpasses
the physical as well as the non-physical extents of the living world. Reality is said to be the
state of anything in the manner they originally exist, not the way human beings wish they
should be rather it is the way they are in reality (Morgan, 2015). Ultimate Reality is one of