Healing through the Centuries: Models for Understanding

by Ronald A. N. Kydd

Publisher:

Hendrickson

, 1998

Overview

Miraculous healing is a topic that always stirs keen interest. Some people claim to have experienced it and others would like to. Some believe that it results from divine intervention; others contend it always has a psychological explanation or is merely fraudulent. Any serious investigation must take into account the diverse accounts of healing found in diverse branches of the Christian tradition from its New Testament origins to the present. However one feels about healing, it has been a mysterious but often central phenomenon in Christian experience. As a believing scholar, Ronald A. N. Kydd steers a middle course between the uncritical enthusiasm and the rationalistic skepticism that often skew popular discussions of the topic. The six “models for understanding” that arise from his study bring clarifying order to the diversities of method, theology, and social location that have characterized healing ministries in different times and places.

Key Features

• Offers six models for understanding cases of healing
• Provides a historical study of healing and healing ministries
• Examines the healing ministry of Jesus

Contents

• The Confrontational Model
• The Intercessory Model
• The Reliquarial Model
• The lncubational Model
• The Revelational Model
• The Soteriological Model

Product Details

• Title: Healing through the Centuries: Models for Understanding
• Author: Ronald A. N. Kydd
• Publisher: Hendrickson
• Print Publication Date: 1998
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Pages: 272
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Spiritual healing; Miracles
• ISBNs: 0913573604, 9780913573600
• Resource ID: LLS:HLNGCNTRS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:31:49Z

About Ronald A. N. Kydd

Ronald Kydd is Emeritus Professor of Christian History at Tyndale Seminary. He has also taught at a number of other institutions over the years, including the School of Religious Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Eastern Pentecostal Bible College (now Master’s College & Seminary), St. Paul’s University and McMaster Divinity College. Previously he served as faculty member, academic dean and acting president at Central Pentecostal College. His published books include Charismatic Gifts in the Early Church, Healing through the Centuries: Models for Understanding, and Finding Pieces of the Puzzle: A Fresh Look at the Christian Story.