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FAITH HEALING , a See also:form of "mind cure," characterized by the See also:doctrine that while See also:pain and disease really exist, they may be neutralized and dispelled by faith in Divine See also:power; the doctrine known as See also:Christian See also:Science (q.v.) holds, however, that pain is only an illusion and seeks to cure the patient by instilling into him this belief. In the Christian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church the tradition of faith healing See also:dates from the earliest days of See also:Christianity; upon the miracles of the New Testament follow cases of healing, first by the Apostles, then by their successors; but faith healing proper is gradually, from the 3rd See also:century .onwards, transformed into See also:trust in See also:relics, though faith See also:cures still occur sporadically in later times. See also:Catherine of See also:Siena is said to have saved See also:Father See also:Matthew from dying of the See also:plague, but in this See also:case it is rather the healer than the healed who was strong in faith. With the See also:Reformation faith healing proper reappears among the Moravians and Waldenses, who, like the See also:Peculiar See also:People of our own See also:day, put their trust in See also:prayer and See also:anointing with oil. In the 16th century we find faith cures recorded of See also:Luther and other reformers, in the next century of the See also:Baptists, See also:Quakers and other Puritan sects, and in the 18th century the faith healing of the Methodists in this See also:country was paralleled by See also:Pietism in See also:Germany, which See also:drew into its ranks so distinguished a See also:man of science as See also:Stahl (1650–1734). In the 19th century See also:Prince See also:Hohenlohe-See also:Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst, See also:canon of Grosswardein, was a famous healer on the See also:continent; the See also:Mormons and Irvingites were prominent among See also:English-speaking peoples; in the last See also:quarter of the loth century faith healing became popular in See also:London, and Bethshan homes were opened in 1881, and since then it has found many adherents in See also:England.
Under faith healing in a wider sense may be included (1) the cures in the temples of See also:Aesculapius and other deities in the See also:ancient See also:world; (2) the practice of touching for the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's evil, in See also:vogue from the I1th to the 18th century; (3) the cures of See also:Valentine Greatrakes, the " Stroke'. " (1629–1683); and (4) the miracles of See also:Lourdes, and other resorts of pilgrims, among which may ,be mentioned St Winifred's Well in Flintshire, Treves with its See also:Holy Coat, the See also:grave of the Jansenist F. de See also:Paris in the 18th century, the little See also:town of Kevelaer from 1641 on-wards, the tombs of St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, See also:Francis of See also:Assisi, Catherine of Siena and others.
An animistic theory .of disease was held by Pastor J. Ch. Blumhardt, Dorothea Trudel, Boltzius and other See also:European faith healers. Used in this sense faith healing is indistinguishable from much of See also:savage See also:leech-See also:craft, which seeks to cure disease by expelling the evil spirit in some portion of the See also:body. Although
it is usually See also:present, faith in the See also:medicine man is not essential for the efficacy of the method. The same may be said of the lineal descendant of savage medicine—the magical leech-craft of European folk-See also:lore; cures for toothache, warts, &c., See also:act in spite of the disbelief of the sufferer; how far incredulity on the See also:part of the healer would result in failure is an open question.
From the psychological point of view all these different kinds of faith healing, as indeed all kinds of mind cure, including those of Christian Science and See also:hypnotism, depend on See also:suggestion (q.v.). In faith healing proper not only are powerful See also:direct suggestions used, but the religious See also:atmosphere and the auto-suggestions of the patient co-operate, especially where the cures take See also:place during a See also:period of religious revival or at other times when large assemblies and strong emotions are found. The suggestibility of large crowds is markedly greater than that of individuals, and to this and the greater faith must be attributed the greater success of the fashionable places of See also:pilgrimage.
See A. T. See also:Myers and F. W. H. Myers in Proc. See also:Soc. Psychical Re-See also:search, ix. 160-209, on the miracles of Lourdes, with bibliography; A. Feilding, Faith.Healing and Christian Science; 0. Stoll, Suggestion and Hypnotismus in der Volkerpsychologie; See also:article " See also:Great-rakes " in See also:Diet. Nat. Biog. (N. W.
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