Healing and the History of Redemption: An Interview with J. D. King
PneumaReview.com: What do you hope the lasting impact of this book will be?
J. D. King: William De Arteaga recently told me that this book series could be the most significant work on healing in a generation. That is undoubtedly an overstatement. I am excited about what dialogue it might spark but have no pretense about it being anything more than that. One colleague recently told me, “Not enough has been written about healing.” I told him that I agreed and planned to do something about it. If my work spurs more gifted minds to examine this topic, I have succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
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Read and interact with excerpts from Regeneration:
- It Was Healing That Propelled The Early Christians
- Early Christians Were Healed While Taking Communion
- How Oral Roberts Operated In The Ministry Of Healing
- John Wimber And The Ministry Of Healing
- Rudolf Bultmann And The Demythologization Of Christianity
- Jack Coe’s Fierce Approach To Healing
Further Reading:
- Read the review by John Miller: Dieter Ising, Johann Christoph Blumhardt, Life and Work: A New Biography
- “Supernatural Physical Manifestations in the Evangelical and Holiness Revival Movements” by Paul King
- “Puritanism: A Legacy Disdained by Historians and Sullied with the Devil’s Victory in Salem” by William De Arteaga
- “John Alexander Dowie” by Derek Vreeland
- “Pietists as Pentecostal Forerunners” by Eric Swensson
- Read the review by Tony Richie: Keith Warrington, Healing & Suffering: Biblical and Pastoral Reflections
- Read reflections by the late Richard Twiss on Whose Religion is Christianity? The Gospel beyond the West, by Lamin Sanneh. “Difference Can Make Us Mo’ Betta”
- Read William De Arteaga’s review of Jon Mark Ruthven, What’s Wrong With Protestant Theology
- Excerpts from Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts, by Craig S. Keener as appearing in Pneuma Review Fall 2013
- “Miracles as Reality” An Interview with Craig S. Keener on the Miraculous and his book, Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts.
Notes
[1] In a private conversation, Randy Clark told me that several professors have encountered the ministry of healing and have changed their outlook about Charismatic practice. The once liberal seminary now has an openness to gifts of the Holy Spirit.
[2] John Laurence von Mosheim declared, “the conversions of the barbarous nations to Christianity must be ascribed principally to the prodigies and miracles that were wrought.” John Laurence von Mosheim, Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, Volume 1 (New York: Robert Cater & Brothers 1801), 358. The Ostrogoths, Visigoths, and Vandals were introduced “to a religion impregnated with miracles and saintly wonders.” Ronald C. Finucane, Miracles and Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1977, 1995), 20.
Category: Church History, Winter 2018