Abstract
The successful cure by diviners of diseases, which resist the techniques of western medicine, suggests that in African culture it is necessary to accept, as a serious therapeutic hypothesis, the existence of ghosts and witchcraft. This conflicts with the deep-rooted assumptions of western doctors, who prefer to talk in terms of psychosis and neurosis. But, as Christians, we have no right to prefer one hypothesis to the other. The belief in the objective character of spirit-possession is an ineradicable part of the thought-forms of the New Testament. Is it possible that western science has gone too far in eliminating psychic factors in the external world? and, if so, have Christians a contribution to make, especially in this African setting, towards a restoration of the balance?
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