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Contents

1 The Church’s ministry of healing

What is health?

Disease, illness and sickness

A whole person

Shalom

Healing in the New Testament

The healing ministry of Jesus

Historical sketch

Pastoral care today

Proclamation and teaching model

Nurture model

Service model

Therapy model

Charismatic/Pentecostal model

Sacramental model

2 The pain that heals

The story of Job

Job’s three friends

Two interludes

Is there a suffering that heals?

3 Emotional health: Christians and counselling

‘Christian counselling’?

Fully alive

Some history of pastoral care

The conversation between theology and psychology

Four models of this relationship

Pastoral counselling

Assumptions

Assumptions about human nature

Assumptions about values

Processes of change

Love casts out fear

The truth that sets free

Pastoral counselling in a church context

4 Standing with the vulnerable: justice and forgiveness

Justice

A Christian concept of justice

Shalom: peace with justice

Forgiveness

The meaning of forgiveness

The tears of God

Social forgiveness?

Healing for the Church?

Justice, forgiveness and the healing ministry

of the Church

5 Healing and the kingdom of God

The story of salvation

Abraham and Moses

Prophets

The New Testament

The suffering creation and hope

The kingdom fulfilled

The Church’s ministry of healing

Two frequent questions . . .

Disease, suffering and sin

Miracles of the kingdom

Humanity, the priest of creation

Healing and the Church’s sacramental ministry

Creation healed

Penitence

Ministry of the word

Intercessory prayer

Holy Communion

Index