1. For a fuller critique of today's healing ministries, see R. Hurding,Pathways to Wholeness: Pastoral Care in a Postmodern Age. Hodder & Stoughton 1998, pp217–49.
2. W. A. Clebsch and C. R. Jaekle,Pastoral Care in Historical Perspective. New York: Jason Aronson 1977, p42.
3. R. Williams,The Wound of Knowledge. Darton, Longman & Todd 1990, p11.
4. See N. L. Eiesland,The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability. Nashville, Abingdon Press 1994.
5. A classic example of this tendency is seen in the writings of Colin Urquhart. See, for instance, hisThe Truth That Sets You Free. Hodder & Stoughton 1993, p. 149: ‘The forgiveness made possible through the cross has to be appropriated by faith, just as physical healing does. Some ask God to forgive them again and again because they lack that faith. Some ask for healing again and again for the same reason.’