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Faith Cure: Divine Healing in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements. By Nancy A. Hardesty. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2003. vii + 168 pp. $19.95 cloth.
The current interest in religion and health has led to a new interest in the history of the religious healing. How have religious individuals understood the relation between faith and healing? This has been a particular concern for those from the Protestant Christian tradition. The question of healing only fully emerges in (at least English-speaking) Protestantism in the nineteenth century. Why so late, and why then, many might ask. Nancy Hardesty has provided a useful survey of the revival of interest in religious healing in Faith Cure: Divine Healing in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements.
Hardesty's volume offers...