HLTHAGE 1AA3 Study Guide - Trait Theory, Faith Healing, Early Christianity

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1AA3
• Professor: Geraldine Voros

Document Summary

North america: agnes sanford is one of the most important religious healers of the modern period, she affirmed a theology that stated the healing power of god is latent in every individual waiting to be awakened or cultivated. God"s will makes human being subject to illness. In the case of sin as the cause of illness, the individual is encouraged to own his or her illness, to take responsibility for it because it is the individual"s actions that bring on the sickness. Group structures and practices: healing is the process of admitting one"s sinful nature or actions and trying to do better. Individuals are portrayed as far from helpless in combating satan"s power. Was used primarily to prepare people for death. In recent years, the sacrament has been reinterpreted to play the role it originally played in early christianity, namely, healing the sick.