Amanda Porterfield offers a survey of ideas, rituals, and experiences of healing in Christian history. Jesus himself peformed many miracles of healing, and Christians down the ages have seen this as a prominent feature of their faith. Indeed, healing is one of the most constant themes in the long an[...]
Using newly developed research methods, over one hundred scholars uncover the neglected side of church history as they offer glimpses of the religious ideas and consciousness of the peopletheir assumptions, beliefs, values, habits, longings, terrors, anxieties, and comforts. This is history from bel[...]