"In this book, Raymond Downing as physician-educator perceptively lays down a foundation for a critical dialogue among thinking people. This book is a wake-up call for followers of Jesus in medicine to become engaged." --Bill Pearson, Institute of Faith and Medicine "I strongly endorse this book and believe it will be of great interest to many readers. As a Christian college advisor to undergraduate students who are preparing for future careers in medicine, I can recommend this book as an illustration of how one meaningfully blends faith with medical practice." --Roman J. Miller, Eastern Mennonite University "A Christian application of the two-kingdom (upside-down) approach to healthcare and end of life issues simplifies the complexity of dealing with issues related to death and dying. Must reading for anyone interested in the high cost of American healthcare related to one's last year of life." --Daniel Miller, MD, East Holmes (Ohio) Medical Group "In this remarkable little book, Raymond Downing puts biomedicine under the lens, not of the scientist's microscope, but of the narrative of the Christian Bible.

The ascetic path he proposes requires a radical reconfiguring of the place of biomedicine in human life. But if this path were followed by even a tiny proportion of physicians in America, those physicians might become to contemporary medicine what the Hippocratic reform movement was to the corrupted medicine of ancient Greece." --Farr Curlin, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago.