Book Description
As Holiness denominations began to emerge out of Methodism and other denominations, they were characterized by three distinctive teachings: sanctification, divine healing, and dispensational views of the second coming. This book will look at the second element: the roots of divine healing teaching, its results, its practitioners, its cultural milieu, its biblical and theological foundations, and its relevance today. In general, in this period Holiness and Pentecostal leaders offered healing as an experience and expectation within the community of faith and did not see themselves in any way as dispensers of healing. Their teaching and practice has persisted in many churches today. Hardesty focuses on the period from roughly 1870 to 1920, and in the last chapters, discusses spiritual healing and its connection with the broader cultural search for alternative medicines.
From the Author
This is a book about faith healingnot about faith healers. As the Holiness movements developed in the second half of the nineteenth century and the Pentecostal movement branched off in the early twentieth century, divine healing based on the model in James 5:1415 was a central belief and practice. The growth of these movements, their leaders, and their practice of healing will be outlined in chapters 2, 3, 4, 8, and 9.
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