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The Uncommon Touch: Investigation of Spiritual Healing

The Uncommon Touch: Investigation of Spiritual Healing


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Challenging both Western status quo religion and medicine, this book uncovers strong scientific evidence confirming the phenomenon of spiritual healing - a study for both the sceptic and the believer. The book looks at healing by examining the limits of medical science, taking examples of spiritual healing that cannot be medically explained. Challenging doctors and other health-care professionals to look beyond conventional approaches, it confronts the medical frauds, such as TV faith healers and others like them. From his research, the author discovers that spiritual healing is gaining new respect within the Christian Church and among medical practitioners and patients, most notably in Britain. His discoveries lead him to conclude that all healing is ultimately self-healing, noting that "the forces of traditional healing and conventional medicine are getting closer all the time." Harpur introduces the reader to the modern healers responsible for spiritual healing's new-found regard. From the work of Geoffrey Mowatt, who was commissioned in 1942 by the Archbishop of Canterbury to serve as his official healer, to the findings of McGill University professor Bernard Grad and the healer Oskar Estebany, who experimented with the laying-on of hands on wounded mice, Harpur illustrates that something far beyond the power of suggestion is at work. The book also examines the Therapeutic Touch movement proven to boost the body's immune system, and the "laughter" therapy used in various North American hospitals. The investigations conclude by issuing three challenges: to the medical profession to remember that medicine is as much an art as a science, and to stop dismissing non-medical therapies as quackery; to the Christian Churches to remember that Christ's message to his followers was to go preach, teach and heal; and thirdly, to the reader to take back responsibility for bodily and spiritual health and to develop the potential to heal others. Tom Harpur is the author of "Life After Death", "For Christ's Sake" and "God Help Us".

About the Author :
A former Rhodes scholar and professor of New Testament studies at Wycliffe College, Toronto, Tom Harpur is also an Anglican priest. He resigned from parish work in 1979 to write full-time in the mass media, in the process extending his "parish" to the whole of Canada. His work in newspapers, television, and his books, notably For Christ's Sake and Life After Death, have consolidated his reputation as one of Canada's pre-eminent religious voices and as a sound spiritual guide for modern times. From the Hardcover edition.

Review :
"The Uncommon Touch constitutes one more pressure point on the medical profession to open its eyes to a dimension of life that is tangible, even if not measurable by its own present yardsticks." -The Christian Science Monitor "An earnest proclamation that the life force can renew when asked." -Kirkus Reviews "This book holds compelling arguments for the validity of non-medical healing as a treatment for the ill." -Winnipeg Free Press "A cogent and sensitive appraisal of healing." -The Glasgow Herald "His ability to balance spiritual experience with sound investigative reporting makes for fascinating reading." -Globe and Mail "An important book for...anyone who has sat helplessly beside someone in pain, wishing there was something they could do." -Quill & Quire From the Hardcover edition.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780771039461
  • Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
  • Publisher Imprint: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Investigation of Spiritual Healing
  • Width: 154 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0771039468
  • Publisher Date: /02/1995
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 231 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 436 gr


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