How Christians Invented Hospitals

They didn’t just pray for the sick, they stayed.

While the rest of the world fled plagues, early Christians moved toward the dying.They didn’t wait for governments to act. They built something entirely new: the hospital.

In this episode of Theology Made, we trace the radical roots of medical care not to ancient Greece, Rome, or science alone, but to the revolutionary compassion of the early Church. You’ll meet Bishop Basil the Great, see how monasteries became medieval trauma centers, and discover why the first hospitals weren’t sterile institutions, but small cities of mercy.

This is the story of how theology turned into infrastructure.And why, even in a world of advanced medicine, we still need a theology of compassion.

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