Healing and Christianity: In Ancient Thought and Modern TimesViews the ministry of healing as found in the Christian tradition since biblical times and examines the attitudes of modern theology and medicine. |
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Page 79
... person who needed help , he touched the sick person , he uttered commands , he used various physical media . His healing ministry was as diverse in the meth- ods used as in the kinds of disease he healed . And as one analyzes his ...
... person who needed help , he touched the sick person , he uttered commands , he used various physical media . His healing ministry was as diverse in the meth- ods used as in the kinds of disease he healed . And as one analyzes his ...
Page 208
... person on it , and sign him with ashes , asking him to think how he would return to ashes . With the question ... person's formal response , " They are pleasing , " the priest turned his back and the service ended . Certainly by this ...
... person on it , and sign him with ashes , asking him to think how he would return to ashes . With the question ... person's formal response , " They are pleasing , " the priest turned his back and the service ended . Certainly by this ...
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... person may have known neurotic flight , or depres- sion , perhaps a manic state . But even if he has only experienced a vague guilt for being alienated - from himself and others , as T. S. Eliot shows so well in the figure of Celia in ...
... person may have known neurotic flight , or depres- sion , perhaps a manic state . But even if he has only experienced a vague guilt for being alienated - from himself and others , as T. S. Eliot shows so well in the figure of Celia in ...
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