Spiritual Healing in a Scientific Age

by Robert Peel and Robert Peel

Book Overview

Examines Jesus's teachings concerning spiritual healing, discusses how it differs from faith healing or miracles, and looks at the conflict beteween science and religion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060664851
• ISBN13: 9780060664855
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.

Customer Reviews

To Put Off Fear

It is difficult to dismiss seventh century healings as mere fables. Yet, there are always medical skeptics who speak of spontaneous remission. Biomedicine rests on the concept of the human being as a physical organism. The human spirit is larger than the specialized activities of humans. Today followers of scientific and religious orthodoxy are scandalized by spiritual healing. There is a tendancy to write off spiritual healing as a product of suggestion or the placebo effect. It is thought the diseases healed are psychosomatic or hysterical. Sometimes the words used are anecdotal evidence. This puts the issue into some sort of pejorative category. Christian Science healing is one way of worshipping God. Peel claims emotional coercion is contrary to Christian Science ethics. (Critics of Christian Science would not support such an assertion.) Many individual cases are considered in the latter half of the book where selected testimonies of healing are set forth in considerable detail. Peel makes his points with much persuasive force.

Ask and you shall receive

Robert Peel gives a wonderful background understanding of Christian Science and spiritual healing. Many testimonies including his own personal family's add to the authenticity of his writing.Well worth the read.

"A Very Present Help.."

A great book by Robert Peel describling factually how individuals used Christian Science treatment in medicially hopeless situations. If the situation is hopeless, why not try Christian Science as these people did and give oneself another option, life? It is important for people to know that in the early movement of Christian Science, as today, people were healed by simply reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. It is "a very present help in trouble"..The Bible

The best book about Christian Science I have ever read

Peel discusses a variety of spiritual healing practices and experiences, and provides a wonderful description of the Christian Science movement. The practice of spiritual healing through silent prayer, practiced with great success for over 130 years, is fully explored. The story beginning on page 54 of a tragically deformed and seemingly hopless infant, who regains complete normalcy through Christian Science prayerful treatment, is worth the price of the book. For those who want a very interesting book about spiritual healing and Christian Science practice. this is a very good choice.

Thought-provoking and demonstrative of the power of prayer.

This book is based on the power of prayer for healing through the study of Christian Science. It is highly recommended to further expand your knowledge that the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy also be studied and read.