Biblical and Classical Foundations of the Healing Ministries

Abstract

Traces the modes and methods of healing in the Old Testament, the Greek Hippocratic tradition, and the New Testament. Concludes that healing in the biblical tradition is subjective, introspective, preventive, participatory, with an emphasis on the divine dimension of disease; whereas healing in the Hippocratic tradition is objective, observational, curative, detached, with emphasis on the natural cause of illness. Modern ministry is called to use the best of both traditions.