Description
Book SynopsisA respected biblical scholar offers a close reading of fifteen key biblical texts on healing, considering their significance for the church's ministry today.
Table of Contents1. Introduction and Method
2. "O LORD, Heal Me": The Primal Witness of Psalm 6
3. "I Am the LORD, Your Healer": The God of Healing (Exodus 15:22-27)
4. "Moses Made a Serpent of Bronze": Healing and Culture (Numbers 21:4-9)
5. "Hezekiah Wept Bitterly": Healing and Prayer (2 Kings 20:1-11; Isaiah 38:1-22)
6. "Please Accept a Present": The Cost of Healing (2 Kings 5:1-27)
7. "No Health in My Bones": Reflecting on Illness (Psalm 38)
8. "What God Is So Great as Our God?" The Healing Community (Psalm 77)
9. "Hannah Conceived and Bore a Son": The Place of Healing in Biblical Theology (1 Samuel 1:1-2:10)
10. "The Sensible Will Not Despise Them": Healing, Medicine, Human Wisdom, and God (Sirach 38:1-15)
11. "I Command You, Come Out of Him": Jesus and the Demons (Mark 9:14-29)
12. "He Spat on the Ground and Made Mud": Jesus the Shaman? (John 9:1-41)
13. "If I but Touch His Clothes": Healing and Touch (Mark 5:21-43)
14. "Your Faith Has Made You Well": Healing, Salvation, and Cure (Luke 17:11-19)
15. "Your Sins Are Forgiven . . . Stand Up and Walk": On Sickness and Sin (Mark 2:1-12)
16. "What I Have I Give You": Healing in the Name of Jesus (Acts 3:1-26)
17. "By His Bruises We Are Healed": Healing under the Sign of the Cross (Isaiah 53:4-5)
18. Healing in the Bible: A Summary
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