Embodied Presence Across Life's 3 Stages
The Midrashic interpretation of King Solomon's three biblical works—Song of Songs (youth), Proverbs (maturity), and Ecclesiastes (old age)—provides a useful template for understanding how divine presence manifests differently across human development. This ancient wisdom offers a framework for medical practice that integrates spiritual formation with clinical care across the lifespan.
To develop a comprehensive model of embodied presence in therapeutic encounters based on the Solomonic three-stage progression, integrated with contemporary theology of healing and clinical practice theory.
This theoretical framework synthesizes Midrashic and Talmudic sources on Solomon's developmental wisdom with contemporary scholarship in medical humanities, embodied presence theology, and physician spiritual formation. The analysis draws extensively from clinical-theological works demonstrating how therapeutic encounters function as sites of mutual spiritual transformation.