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An analysis of healing in the New Testament and in early Christianity that aims to rediscover the spiritual basis of the healing ministry of the Church.
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.
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.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 194
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Publication Date:
29 October 2015
Trim Size: 9.17 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9780718893873
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / Biblical Studies / New Testament / General, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, New Testaments
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
[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.
...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
This book would be appropriate for readers interest[ed] in reading a sharp critique of modern healing ministries
— Craig Stephans
— The Rev Dr Neil Richardson
[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.
...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
This book would be appropriate for readers interest[ed] in reading a sharp critique of modern healing ministries
— Craig Stephans
Foreword by Rev. Dr. Helen Leathard
Preface
Editorial Preface
1 Introduction
2 Healing in the Earliest Sources
3 Healing in Mark's Gospel
4 Healing and Mighty Works in the Pauline Epistles
5 Matthew and Luke's Revision of Mark
6 Healing in Matthew, Luke and John
7 Later Developments
8 Summary of the Tradition
9 Healing Today
10 The Principles in Practice
Afterword by Rt Rev. George Hacker
Select Bibliography
Index
Preface
Editorial Preface
1 Introduction
2 Healing in the Earliest Sources
3 Healing in Mark's Gospel
4 Healing and Mighty Works in the Pauline Epistles
5 Matthew and Luke's Revision of Mark
6 Healing in Matthew, Luke and John
7 Later Developments
8 Summary of the Tradition
9 Healing Today
10 The Principles in Practice
Afterword by Rt Rev. George Hacker
Select Bibliography
Index