Faith in the Great Physician
Title | Faith in the Great Physician PDF eBook |
Author | Heather D. Curtis |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 456 |
Release | 2007-11-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1421402017 |
This history of evangelical faith healing in nineteenth-century America examines the nation’s shifting attitudes about sickness, suffering, and health. Faith in the Great Physician tells the story of how participants in the divine healing movement transformed the ways Americans coped with physical affliction and pursued bodily wellbeing. Heather D. Curtis offers critical reflection on the theological, cultural, and social forces that come into play when one questions the purpose of suffering and the possibility of healing. Belief in divine healing ran counter to a deep-seated Christian ethic that linked physical suffering with spiritual holiness. By engaging in devotional disciplines and participating in social reform efforts, proponents of faith cure embraced a model of spiritual experience that endorsed active service, rather than passive endurance, as the proper Christian response to illness and pain. Emphasizing the centrality of religious practices to the enterprise of divine healing, Curtis sheds light on the relationship among Christian faith, medical science, and the changing meanings of suffering and healing in American culture. Recipient of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History for 2007
The Faith Healers
Title | The Faith Healers PDF eBook |
Author | James Randi |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN |
Exposes the pretension and fraud that surrounds the faith healer business, revealing how alleged faith healers prey on the insecurities and vulnerabilities of the people they preach to.
Prayer, Faith, and Healing
Title | Prayer, Faith, and Healing PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Winston Caine |
Publisher | Rodale |
Total Pages | 548 |
Release | 2000-05-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781579542658 |
Collects the thoughts of pastors, counselors, doctors, and health researchers on the efficacy and practice of prayer
Bad Faith
Title | Bad Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Offit |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 271 |
Release | 2015-03-10 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0465082963 |
When Jesus said, “Suffer the children,” faith healing is not what he had in mind
Faith Cures, and Answers to Prayer
Title | Faith Cures, and Answers to Prayer PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Mix |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2024-01-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3385107695 |
More Faith Cures. Or, Answers to Prayer in the Healing of the Sick
Title | More Faith Cures. Or, Answers to Prayer in the Healing of the Sick PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Cullis |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 110 |
Release | 2024-05-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 338546823X |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Faith Cures, and Answers to Prayer
Title | Faith Cures, and Answers to Prayer PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Mix |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2024-01-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3385107687 |