In light of the growing healing movement within the Christian Church, with services ranging from sacramental anointing to charismatic signs and wonders, Howard, a specialist physician and ordained Anglican priest, evaluates the movement's claim that healing was central to the early Christian mission. He examines the historical and cultural context,

Description: Did Jesus really restore sight to blind people? How are we to understand the stories of demon possession? What are we to make of the virgin birth? What was Paul's thorn in the flesh? These and many similar questions often arise in people's minds as they read the New Testament, and there are few places for the general reader to look to find the answers; even ministers and students find it difficult to access useful and up-to-date information. Commentaries on the New Testament rarely pay much attention to the diagnosis of the illnesses mentioned in the Gospels and elsewhere, and...