Healing in the History of Christianity

Name: Healing in the History of Christianity
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ISBN: 9780195157185

ISBN-10: 0195157184

ISBN-13: 9780195157185

Edition: 2005

Authors: Amanda Porterfield

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Amanda Porterfield offers a survey of ideas, rituals, and experiences of healing in Christian history. Jesus himself peformed many miracles of healing, and Christians down the ages have seen this as a prominent feature of their faith. Indeed, healing is one of the most constant themes in the long and sprawling history of Christianity. Changes in healing beliefs and practices offer a window into changes in religious authority, church structure, and ideas about sanctity, history,resurrection, and the kingdom of God. Porterfield chronicles these changes, at the same time shedding important new light on the universality of religious healing. Finally, she looks at recent scientific findings…

Book details

List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/25/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.30" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Amanda Porterfield is the Robert A. Spivey Professor of Religion and professor of history at Florida State University.