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| Titre : | God Does Heal Today : Pastoral Principles and Practice of Faith-Healing |
| Auteurs : | Robert Dickinson, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Carlisle [GB] : Paternoster Press, 1995 |
| Collection : | Rutherford Studies in Contemporary Theology |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-946068-56-2 |
| Format : | xvi + 343 p. / Bibliographie; index |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | EP/C (Maladie, guérison : approche théologique) |
| Résumé : | "There are innumerable books on Faith Healing, but this is the most thorough, balanced, practical and satisfying study I hâve ever read. It is, indeed, monumental." - Prof. David Short |
| Note de contenu : |
- Acknowledgements
- Author’s note - Preface Summary PART I • THE BIBLE TEACHING - I. Setting limits: 1. A suitable name / 2. Body, mind and soul / 3. The ultimate ‘guidebook’ - II. The Master Healing: 1. The basic pattern / 2. Once and for ail / 3. The purpose of miracles: (i) ‘Proof’ (ii) ‘Signs’ (iii) ‘Mighty works’ / 4. The problem of demons / 5. Summary - III. The Apostles Healing: 1. The ‘Twelve’ and the ‘Seventy’ / 2. Post-Pentecost: (i) Changing pattern (ii) ‘Exceptional powers’ (iii) ‘Signs following’ (iv) ‘Greater works’ / 3. Summary - IV. HEALING IN THE OLD TESTAMENT: 1. Individual healings: (i) The cure of childlessness (ii) Association with judgment (iii) Various healings (iv) Healing refused / 2. Covenant health / 3. Healing and the ‘atonement’ / 4. Summary - V. THE GIFT OF HEALING: 1. Gifts and charms / 2. ‘Spiritual gifts’ / 3. Withdrawn or not? (i) The ‘Reformed’ view (ii) The ‘Pentecostal’ view (iii) The ‘middle’ view / 4. Summary - VI. THE CALL FOR HEALING: 1. Spiritual or physical? (i) The involvement of ‘the elders’ (ii) The terms used (iii) ‘Anointing’ (iv) ‘Confession’ / 2. ‘Extreme Unction’ / 3. Procedures (i) The initiative (ii) The ‘elders’ (iii) The ‘prayer of faith’ (iv) Anointing (v) Confession of sins (vi) Important omissions / 4. Changing pattern / 5. Why the change? - VII. TO HEAL OR NOT TO HEAL: 1. The nature of faith-healing / 2. The nature and relevance of ‘faith’ / 3. Failure or refusal (i) ‘sickness’ and ‘suffering’ (ii) ‘Thy will be done’ / 4. Summary - VIII. THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION: 1. Death—friend or foe? (i) ‘Reformed’ teaching (ii) ‘Adventist’ teaching (iii) To be or not to be / 2. Cause of death / 3. The hope of life / 4. Body and soul / 5. Dying well / 6. Destroyer or healer? PART II • THE CHERCHES HEALING - IX. THE CHURCH OF THE ‘FATHERS’: 1. A new world / 2. New developments / 3. The medieval period (i) Symbols and relics (ii) Saints (iii) An English legend / 4. Summary - X. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: 1. Sacramental healing / 2. The Lourdes phenomenon / 3. Charismatic healing / 4. Summary - XI. THE ANGLICAN CHURCH: 1. The Lambeth Reports / 2. Forms of ministry / 3. The practice of healing / 4. Healing and the Eucharist - XII. THE METHODIST CHURCH: 1. Wesley the healer / 2. After Wesley / 3. The 1977 Declaration (i) Theological affirmations (ii) Conséquences / 4. Healing at Chapel Street - XIII. THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCHES: 1. The Pentecostal Movement / 2. The demand for miracles / 3. Cause and cure / 4. The ‘three ways’ / 5. The issue of faith / 6. Summary - XIV. THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN IRELAND: 1. The 1959 Report (i) Common suppositions (ii) The issue of faith (iii) Minister and doctor / 2. The 1982 Report (i) Biblical teaching and practice (ii) Sickness and sin (iii) Healing methods (iv) General observations / 3. Assessment of the Reports (i) The 1959 Report (ii) The 1982 Report (iii) Contrasts / 4. Summary PART III • MODERN HEALING MINISTRIES * Individual Healers: - XV. AS THE HEALER SEES IT: 1. The interview with ‘A’ / 2. Assessment of the interview (i) Dealing with the ‘Word’ (ii) Which is it? / 3. Common ground - XVI. AS THE DOCTOR SEES IT: 1. Establishing the facts / 2. Miracles do happen / 3. Spiritual gifts continue / 4. Stark evidence / 5. Gardner’s conclusions / 6. Doctors differ / 7. No prescription * Healing Movements: - XVII. THE HEALING MINISTRY CONGREGATION: 1. The healing ministry / 2. Basic principles (i) The reasons for Christ’s healing work and the commission to heal (ii) The issue of ‘faith’ (iii) The analogy of preaching and healing / 3. Objections to healing (i) The value of suffering (ii) Paul’s ‘thorn’ (iii) Trophimus, Timothy and Epaphroditus (iv) The will of God / 4. Conclusion - XVIII. PRIESTLY HEALING: 1. Difficulties about healing / 2. The church and suffering / 3. The meaning of suffering / 4. Basic attitudes to healing / 5. Types of healing and of prayer / 6. Reasons for failure / 7. Practical questions / 8. Healing and the sacraments / 9. Conclusion - XIX. ‘Signs and wonders’: 1. The work of Wimber (i) Biblical principles and patterns (ii) Aspects of healing (iii) Healing of demonisation (iv) Integrated model of healing (v) The ministry of healing in the congregation / 2. Common ground / 3. Wimber distinctives (i) Healing and evangelism (ii) Healing and ‘prophecy’ (iii) Other problems (iv) Gunstone’s questions PART IV • PASTORAL PRINCIPLES AN PRACTICE - XX. PASTORAL PRINCIPLES: 1. Healing in New Testament times (i) The practice of Christ and the Apostles (ii) The exercise of ‘gifts’ (iii) The procedure in James 5 / 2. Healing in modem times / 3. Two alternatives (i) The ‘gifts’ withdrawn (ii) The ‘gifts’ continue / 4. Summary - XXI. PASTORAL PRACTICE: 1. Proper perspectives / 2. ‘Signs and wonders’ / 3. Pattern for today / 4. In conclusion - APPENDIX - The ecumenical Movement: 1. The 1990 CMC study / 2. The 1964 WCC Consultation / 3. The 1970 Limuru Conference / 4. The 1980 Bossey Consultation - Tables - Bibliography - Scripture Index / Subject Index |
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