Healing As Empowerment: Discovering Grace in Community - Softcover

Jesudasan, Usha; Ruppell, Gert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2825414395 ISBN 13: 9782825414392

Publisher: World Council of Churches (WCC Publications), 2005

Synopsis

This book offers a collection of stories from Christian communities, as reported to consultations on healing ministries held in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Faith healing and spiritual cures have formed a part of Christian ministry from the time of Jesus. Yet to many, these practices smack of magic, mysticism and irrational beliefs that seem deeply alien to Western patterns of religion. Conversely, these Western patterns strike some Christians in other parts of the world as the dry fruits of aging, shrinking churches that are losing contact with the living source of healing power. It is in the midst of this tension that the worlds greatest contemporary pandemic, HIV/AIDS, is challenging all the churches and changing concepts of what healing ministry means. The call to healing is also a call for change in the relationship of Christians and their churches to others around them, and to the world itself. Positive responses to this calling offer potential for life-transforming empowerment in the lives of individuals and in the life of the world.

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About the Author

Usha Jesudasan from India is the author of a series of publications on Christian spirituality and inter-religious concerns. Gert Ruppell from Finland publishes resource material on education in mission and ecumenical formation.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Council of Churches (WCC Publications)
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 2825414395
• ISBN 13: 9782825414392
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92