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- Title
The Faith Healer's Pledge: How early Mormons Captured Audiences.
- Authors
Meretz, Tal
- Abstract
This paper explores the use of faith healing in attracting converts to early Mormonism, by investigating the diaries and autobiographies of both converts and missionaries. It argues that while faith healing was technically banned from being used to convert people, it still played a specific but essential role as a 'clincher' for those on the brink of conversion. It explores faith healing in relation to the Mormon conversion process as a whole, and resolves the theologically inconsistent position on magic and supernaturalism. It contends that the use of faith healing in the Mormon missionary process has gone largely unacknowledged because previous scholars have prioritised official Mormon documents over unofficial personal writings.
- Subjects
MORMONISM; BIOGRAPHIES of missionaries; SPIRITUAL healing
- Publication
Eras, 2015, Vol 17, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
1445-5218
- Publication type
Article