Healing Touch: The Church's Forgotten Language

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Westminster John Knox Press, 1 de gen. 1994 - 145 pàgines
In this helpful book, Zach Thomas shows how clergy, friends, and congregations can reclaim the ancient practice of healing touch. He presents biblical principles that encourage wholesome behavior and protect against unhealthy touch. He provides a model for reflecting on touch in pastoral care, offers case studies that demonstrate how and when clients should be referred to body-work therapists, and provides congregations with guidance in designing appropriate healing services that include the laying on of hands.

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Called and Created to Touch
3
The Role of Touch in the MindBody Split
25
The Language of Healing Touch
43
The Intention of Touch in Pastoral Care
61
Expectations and Settings of Touch
74
Healing Touch in Worship
92
Epilogue
107
Appendix B Examples of Ministries with
113
Notes
119
Bibliography and Resources
133
Index
141
Copyright

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Sobre l'autor (1994)

Zach Thomas is a certified bodywork therapist and minister. He has been a hospital chaplain and a parish minister. He is the founder of the National Association of Bodyworkers in Religious Service.

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