Divine Healing; or, The Atonement for Sin and Sickness

About this book

R. Kelso Carter regarded sickness as a question of faith as well as physical suffering. He turned to the New Testament in search of a promise that Christian redemption might include the body.

Divine Healing belongs to the late nineteenth-century faith-healing movement, arguing from scripture that prayer could bring recovery. Its claims do not provide a substitute for medical treatment. The book shows why bodily healing became a subject of such intense hope and disagreement among believers: it placed the meaning of salvation alongside the most immediate experiences of illness and pain.