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HEALING HOPE: PHYSICAL HEALING AND RESURRECTION HOPE IN A POSTMODERN CONTEXT Cornelius A. Buller* The Salvation Army Ethics Centre/447 Webb Place Winnipeg, MB Canada cornelius_buller@can.salvationarmy.org * Cornelius A. Buller (PhD, McMaster University) is an ethicist with the Salvation Army Ethics Centre and adjunct professor of Christian Ethics at William and Catherine Booth College in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. © The Continuum Publishing Group Ltd 2002, The Tower Building, 11 York Road, London SE I 7NX and 370 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA. ABSTRACT In the individualistic and consumerist context of the postmodern West, physical healing by faith might be seen as one more alternative in the consumption of healthcare services. In addition, with the decline and/or eclipse of modernity, there is a malaise of hope. This article is an attempt to counter such developments with an outline of a biblical perspective on healing. It is argued that healing is linked with legitimate and life-giving leadership, as well as with hope for the future. A medical model of human well-being which is informed almost exclu- sively by scientific and technological methodologies and practices has defined modern Western healthcare. Although medical models continue to dominate on this side of
Journal of Pentecostal Theology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2002
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