The Healing Tradition of the New Testament
Format:Paperback
Publisher:James Clarke & Co Ltd
Published:29th Oct '15
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Over the last twenty years there has been a great surge of interest in the healing ministry, yet this ferment of activity seems not to have been matched by an equally fresh or energetic study of healing in the New Testament, which ostensibly forms the basis, and is still claimed as supplying the inspiration for the 'revival' of this ministry. This work is the first, serious, critical study of healing in the New Testament as a discrete subject. Its purpose is to arrive at a clearer understanding of what Scripture actually tells us about healing; not what we imagine it says or hope that it might say, not what we may have been led to believe it says, nor indeed what we have sometimes been taught that it says, but what the sacred authors actually wrote, and more to the point, what they meant by what they wrote.
"I began the book with misgivings and doubts, but was increasingly impressed... Few books have attracted from me so many pencilled scrawls in the margins, most of them meaning "Amen to that!" -The Rev Dr Neil Richardson, Methodist Recorder, 29/01/2016 "[A] substantial and scholarly work on the healing tradition of the New Testament. ... Here, surely, is a stimulus to further study and debate because Pett raises questions about current assumptions and practices on the Church's ministry of healing." -Chrism, Vol. 52, No. 2, Autumn 2015 "...I feared that this might be a book by a well-meaning former hospital chaplain that has little relevance for the healing ministry today. I was wrong! Dr Pett obviously spent his retirement working carefully through the Gospel healing stories, unravelling the various strata in chronological order and reaching conclusions that are often origninal and immensely challenging." -Robin Gill, Theology, Vol. 119 No. 4, July/August 2016 "This book would be appropriate for readers interest[ed] in reading a sharp critique of modern healing ministries" -Craig Stephans, Theological Book Review, Vol. 27 No.1, 2016
ISBN: 9780718893873
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 301g
194 pages