Healing and Healers Today

The question that Jim Thompson deals with in this book is how do we, as Christians, respond to claims of a restoration of the New Testament gift of healing? Doubt is not cast on the fact that God can heal, but on the fact that there are those claiming the same gift of healing that was found in the New Testament. What should our reaction be, for example, when we are told that a healing evangelist is holding meetings in our town? This book sets out to investigate these claims to the gift of healing, and in doing so raises troubling questions about the Word-Faith movement which influences so many people all around the world.

Publisher: Evangelical Press
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780852349335

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Jim Thompson has degrees in mathematics (Liverpool University) and in biblical studies (Sheffield University). He now serves as a deacon at Latimer Memorial Congregational Church in Beverley, East Yorkshire, where he has a particular role in evangelism among adults in the community.

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As a doctor who has reviewed and written about claims for miraculous healing, I confidently commend Jim Thompson’s review of this regularly recurring controversy within the church. Medically rigorous and biblically balanced, this book must be considered by all who want to present the gospel, the whole gospel, with integrity.’ Dr Andrew Fergusson (author of Hard Questions about Health and Healing)