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Transformational Prayer Ministry (formerly Theophostic counseling) was developed in the United States during the mid-1990s by Ed Smith, a Baptist minister. [1] [2]Its name comes from the Greek theo (' God ') and quasi-Greek phostic (' light '), and it is often associated with the Christian Inner Healing Movement.
They were first challenged by Albert Schweitzer in his doctoral thesis, The Psychiatric Study of Jesus: Exposition and Criticism, [80] [2] [3] (Die psychiatrische Beurteilung Jesu: Darstellung und Kritik, 1913) [81] [82] [28] [83] and by the American theologian Walter E. Bundy [Wikidata] in his 1922 book, The psychic health of Jesus.
A study published in 2008 used Eysenck's dimensional model of personality based on neuroticism and psychoticism to assess the mental health of high school students based on their self-reported frequency of prayer. For students both in Catholic and Protestant schools, higher levels of prayer were associated with better mental health as measured ...
One example is the case of "a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was not better but rather grew worse". [20] After healing her, Jesus tells her "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace! Be cured from your illness". [21]
Science and Health encapsulates the teachings of Christian Science and adherents often call it their "textbook." At Sunday services, the sermon consists of passages from the Bible with "correlative passages" [9] from Science and Health. Eddy called the two books Christian Science's "dual and impersonal pastor". [10] [non-primary source needed]
A heroin addict entering a rehab facility presents as severe a case as a would-be suicide entering a psych ward. The addiction involves genetic predisposition, corrupted brain chemistry, entrenched environmental factors and any number of potential mental-health disorders — it requires urgent medical intervention.
Students could study metaphysics, science of the scriptures, mental healing and obstetrics, using two textbooks, Science and Health and the Bible. [163] Between 1881 and October 1889, when Eddy closed the college, 4,000 students took the course at $300 per person or married couple, making her a rich woman. [164]
Lawrence J. Crabb, Jr. (July 13, 1944 – February 28, 2021) was an American Christian counselor, [1] author, [2] Bible teacher, spiritual director, and seminar speaker. [3] Crabb wrote several best-selling books and was the founder and director of New Way Ministries and co-founder of his legacy ministry, Larger Story.