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Healing in the History of Christianity AMANDA PORTERFIELD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Healing in the History of Christianity This page intentionally left blank Healing in the History of Christianity amanda porterfield 1 2005 1 OxfordUniversityPress,Inc.,publishesworksthatfurther OxfordUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellence inresearch,scholarship,andeducation. Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright(cid:1)2005byOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10016 www.oup.com OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Porterfield,Amanda,1947– HealinginthehistoryofChristianity/AmandaPorterfield. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13978-0-19-515718-5 ISBN0-19-515718-4 1. Spiritualhealing. 2. Healing—Religiousaspects—Christianity. 3. Miracles. 4. HealingintheBible. I. Title. BT732.5.P672005 234'.131—dc22 2004029864 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper To Keith This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments Manypeoplecontributedtothisbook,bothdirectlyandindirectly. MartinMarty,BrooksHolifield,GrantWacker,RandallBalmer, SusanGraham,andothercolleaguesintheAmericanSocietyof ChurchHistoryencouragedtheprojectasIfirstbegantodevelopit. RonNumbersalsosupportedtheprojectfromthebeginningand sentmearticlesIneededtoread.DenisJanz,RichardHorsley, VirginiaBurrus,DerekKrueger,DanielBornstein,PeterMatheson, andMaryBednarowskihelpedmethinkabouthealinginthecon- textofthehistoryofChristianpractice.CynthiaReadatOxfordUni- versityPressgavethemanuscriptadetailedreadingthatimprovedit enormously.HerknowledgeofthehistoryofChristianthoughtisas impressiveasherinsightintowhatmakesagoodbook. PaulFlesher,CarolynAnderson,SusanFrye,BobTorry,and othercolleaguesattheUniversityofWyomingattendedtoearly draftsofchapters,andmycolleaguesatFloridaStateUniversity wereequallygenerouswiththeirtimeandhelp.Iamespecially gratefultoDavidLevensonforopeninghislibrarytomeandfor helpingmefindmywayamidthevoluminousscholarshipcon- cernedwithJesusandtheearlyhistoryofChristianity.JohnKelsay gavemeconsiderablehelpinstrengtheningthechapteronearly modernChristianity.JohnCorrigan,BrianCuevas,MattDay,Kath- leenErndl,AlineKalbian,DavidKangas,MartinKavka,NicoleKelly, JohnKelsay,AmyKoehlinger,DavidLevenson,andBarneyTwissall viii acknowledgments helpedmethinkabouttheplaceboeffectandtherelationshipbetweenChris- tianhealingandmodernscience. Several graduate students madesignificantcontributionstothisbook.At theUniversityofWyoming,MaryDolan’sbeliefintheimportanceofthebook sped me on my way. At Florida State, Laura Brock tracked down articles I needed for the chapter on medical missions. Gene Mills responded helpfully to my request of an analysis of the manuscript with respect to Pentecostal thought.KellyBaker,JeffDanese,MichaelGueno,WarrenHope,DaveIsaacs, Marianne Lipsius, Michael Pasquier, and Howell Williams all helped me im- provethemanuscript.JosephWilliamswroteaseminarpaperoncharismatic healingthatIdrewfrominwritingthelastchapter.IalsodrewfromThomas Lloyd’sundergraduatepaperonInternetprayer.ThankstoMichaelGuenofor hisworkontheindex. Last but not least, thanks to Keith Hull for enabling me to express my thoughtsmoreclearlyandformanyotherthingsaswell. Contents Introduction,3 1. Jesus:ExorcistandHealer,21 2. HealinginEarlyChristianity,43 3. HealinginMedievalChristianity,67 4. HealinginEarlyModernChristianity,93 5. HealinginWesternChristianity’sGlobalExpansion,119 6. ChristianityandtheGlobalDevelopmentofScientific Medicine,141 7. ChristianHealingintheShadowofModernTechnology andScience,159 Notes,187 Index,209

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