Pastoral Care And Direct Divine Healing

Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor

The ministry of healing has been a central aspect of the Christian faith, beginning with the work of Jesus and the apostles. Throughout Christian history, the church has pursued several approaches to the ministry of healing: hagiographical, incubational, revelational, soteriological, and confrontational.

Adolf Harnack, eminent historian of the early church, observed early in the twentieth century:

Deliberately and consciously [Christianity] assumed the form of "the religion of salvation or...

 

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