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faith healing

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faith healing
Etymology: L, fidere, to trust; AS, hoelen, to make whole
alleged healing through the power to cause a cure or recovery from an illness or injury without the aid of conventional medical treatment. The healer is believed to have been given that power by a supernatural force.


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Daneel, Zionism and Faith Healing in Rhodesia--Aspects of African Independent Churches (Mouton: The Hague, 1970); Marthinus L.
Unfortunately, his family members all move on in their lives: their father, a know-it-all lawyer, loses himself in alcohol; his mother, who had a cynical view of life before the accident, becomes religious to the point of letting her daughter become the object of faith healing and religious fanaticism; and his overbearing, somewhat sadistic older brother changes too.
Was faith healing needed to cure those for whom modern medicine failed, or was the hospital a backup system for patients with insufficient faith?
 
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