Spiritual healing : report of a clerical and medical committee of inquiry into spiritual, faith and mental healing.

  • Clerical and Medical Committee of Inquiry into Spiritual, Faith, and Mental Healing.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Spiritual healing : report of a clerical and medical committee of inquiry into spiritual, faith and mental healing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    6. —No. Such evidence as I can find has failed to convince me that a truly organic disease can be cured by mental influence alone. 7. —Most certainly not. Dr.McComb further stated that the Emmanuel effort in Boston, U.S.A., is under strict medical control. It aims at combining the forces of religion with the results of modern medical and psycho- logical science in the cure or alleviation of functional disturbances of the nervous system, where an ethical or spiritual problem is involved. It differs from irregular healing cults by being based on modern science; it differs from ordinary psycho- therapy by its belief in the healing forces of religion and in the value of an ethical discipline of the will. The clergymen who have organised this work keep on their own ground. They are teachers of religion and ethics. They are not doctors of medicine, and are as jealous for the rights and dignity of the medical profession as they are for the reality of religion and the rights of faith. They believe that the discoveries of medical science are as much a revelation of the Divine Will as the Ten Com- mandments or the Sermon on the Mount. They also think that the true answer to Christian Science and allied movements is practical proof that science and faith joined together can do all that these cults can do, and at the same time preserve mental sanity and spiritual integrity. In reply to general interrogation by the Com- mittee :— I
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