Suggested Reading
on the Healing Ministry
This list of books and associated literature is offered in support of the ecumenical expression of this ministry and to help develop wider appreciation of the issues which affect its development. It is a fairly comprehensive (although not exhaustive) list of books which represent contributions from a range of traditions: nevertheless it does not attempt to be the definitive list of publications on the healing ministry. The publications have been selected and suggested by individual denominational representatives on CTH: consequently, they reflect a wide range of differences in theology, ecclesiology, practical expression and other aspects of this ministry, as well as valued shared common ground.
The practice of ministry and mission in the Church is constantly evolving and responding to its changing context within contemporary society. Nevertheless, it is hoped that this list will provide insights and encouragement to those who wish to deepen their understanding and awareness of the healing ministry and to ensure that it is always carried out safely, for the sakes of those involved in ministering as well as those to whom they minister. The suggested titles provide a foundation on which to build, cover a range of expressions of this ministry and help to put it in perspective within the wider mission and ministry of the Church, professional healthcare and related areas: many titles relate to several areas.
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An overview of the healing ministry and related areas
The Archbishops’ Council, (2000), A Time to Heal, London, Church House Publishing, (main report and handbook).
Calvert, Graham, (Ed.), (1997), Health, Healing and Wholeness: Salvationist Perspectives, London, The Salvation Army.
Gillies, Robert, (1995), A Way for Healing: Some Christian Foundations, The Hansel Press.
Hacker, George, (1998), The Healing Stream; Catholic Insights into the Ministry of Healing, London, DLT.
Hodges, David, (1995), George Fox and the Healing Ministry, Friends Fellowship of Healing.
Kelsey, Morton, (1995), Healing and Christianity, Minneapolis, Augsberg Press.
Lucas, Ernest (Ed), (1997), Christian Healing: What Can We Believe? London, Lynx Communications.
MacNutt, Francis, (1996), Healing, London, Hodder & Stoughton.
Maddocks, Morris, (1988), Twenty Questions About Healing, London, SPCK.
Maddocks, Morris, (1995), The Christian Healing Ministry, London, SPCK.
McManus , Jim CSSR, (1999), The Healing Power of the Sacraments, Notre Dame, St Paul Press/ Ave Maria Press,
Parker, Russ, Fraser, Derek and Rivers, David, (2000), In Search of Wholeness, Nottingham, St John’s Extension Studies.
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Theological and historical resources relating to the healing ministry
Cowie, Ian, (2000), Jesus’ healing works and ours, Glasgow, Wild Goose Publications.
Gillies, Robert A., (1998), Healing Broader and Deeper: with biblical study notes, Carberry, The Handsel Press Ltd.
Gower, Christopher, (2003), Speaking of Healing, London, SPCK
Heidenreich, Alfred, (1980), Healings in the Gospels, Edinburgh, Floris Books.
Larchet, Jean-Claude, (2005), Mental Disorders and Spiritual Healing: Teachings from the Early Christian East, translated by Rama P. Coomaraswamy and G. John Champoux, Hillsdale New York, Sophia Perennis.
Lawrence, Roy, (2000), Finding Hope and Healing through the Bible, London, Triangle.
Maclachlan, Lewis, (1968), Miracles of Healing: studies of the healing miracles n the New Testament, Evesham, Arthur James Limited.
Pilch, John, (2000), Healing in the New Testament: insights from medical and Mediterranean anthropology, Minneapolis, Fortress Press.
Pilch, John (2004), Visions and Healing in the Acts of the Apostles: how the Early Believers Experienced God, Collegeville, Minnesota, Liturgical Press.
Porterfield, Amanda, (2005), Healing in the History of Christianity, Oxford, OUP.
Robertson, Edwin, (1988), The Biblical Bases of Healing, London, Arthur James Ltd.
Tillich, Paul, (1984), The Meaning of Health, Chicago, Exploration Press.
Thomas, John Christopher, (1998), The Devil, Disease and Deliverance: Origins of Illness in New Testament Thought, London, Continuum.
Verhey, Allen, (2003), Reading the Bible in the Strange World of Medicine, Cambridge, William B Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Warrington, Keith, (2000), Jesus the Healer: paradigm or unique phenomenon? Carlisle, Paternoster Press.
Wilkinson, John, (1998), The Bible and Healing: A Medical and Theological Commentary, Edinburgh, Handsel/Eerdmans
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The healing ministry and professional healthcare
Aldridge, David, (2000), Spirituality, Healing and Medicine, London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Ciarrocchi, Joseph, (1993), A Minister’s Handbook of Mental Disorders, New Jersey, Paulist Press,.
Dryden, Windy and Feltham, Colin, (1995), Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Consumer’s Guide, Sheldon Press.
Gardner, Rex, (1986), A Doctor Investigates Healing Miracles, London, Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd.
Johnson, W. Brad, and Johnson, William L., (2000), The Pastor’s Guide to Psychological Disorders and Treatments, London, The Haworth Pastoral Press.
Koenig, Harold, (2002), Spirituality in Patient Care, Pennsylvania, Templeton Foundation Press.
May, Gerald,(1982), Care of Mind, Care of Spirit, New York, Harper San Francisco.
Stoter, David, (1995), Spiritual Aspects of Health Care, London, Moseby.
Tuckwell, Gareth and Flagg, David, (2000), A Question of Healing: The Reflections of a Doctor and a Priest, Guildford, Eagle.
White, Gillian, (2006), Talking about spirituality n health care practice: a resource for the multi-professional health care team, London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Willows, David and Swinton, John (eds), (2000), Spiritual Dimensions of Pastoral Care, London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Wright, Stephen and Sayre-Adams, Jean, (2000), Sacred Space: Right Relationship and Spirituality in Healthcare, Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone.
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The healing ministry and healthcare chaplaincy
Arbuckle, Gerald, (2000), Healthcare Ministry: Refounding the Mission in Tumultuous Times, Collegeville, Minnesota, The Order of St Benedict.
Burton, Laurel Arthur (Ed.), (1988), Making Chaplaincy Work: Practical Approaches, London, The Haworth Press.
Chaplaincy Education and Development Group, The, (2001), Health Care Chaplaincy Volunteers: A Training Resource, London, Church House Publishing.
Cobb, Mark, (2005), The Hospital Chaplain’s Handbook: A Guide for Good Practice, Norwich, Canterbury Press.
Kirkwood, Neville, (1993), A Hospital Handbook on Multiculturalism and Religion: Practical Guidelines for Healthcare workers, Harrisburg, Millennium Books.
Orchard, Helen, (2000), Hospital Chaplaincy: Modern, Dependable? Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press Ltd.
VandeCreek, Larry, (Ed.), (1999), Contract Pastoral Care and Education: the Trend of the Future? London, The Haworth Pastoral Press.
VandeCreek, Larry, (Ed.), (2000), Professional Chaplaincy: What is happening to it during health care reform? London, The Haworth Pastoral Press.
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The healing ministry and pastoral care
Callahan, Kennon L., (1997), Visiting in an Age of Mission, Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Haugk, Kenneth C, (1984), Christian Caregiving: a Way of Life, Augsberg Publishing House.
Jacobs, Michael, (2000), Swift to Hear: Facilitating Skills in Listening and Responding’, London, SPCK.
Lawrence, Roy, (1998), The Practice of Christian Healing, London, Triangle.
Leech, Kenneth, (1998), Drugs and Pastoral Care, London, Darton Longman & Todd.
Long, Anne, (1990), Listening, London, DLT.
May, Gerald G., (1991), Addiction and Grace, New York, Harper San Francisco.
McGrath, Tom, (2002), When you’re sick or in the hospital: healing help for kids, St. Meinrad Archabbey, Indiana, One Caring Place Abbey Press.
Pattison, Stephen, (2000), A Critique of Pastoral Care, London, SCM Press.
Perry, Christopher, (1991), Listen to the Voice Within; A Jungian Approach to Pastoral Care, London, SPCK.
Savage, John S., (1999), Listening and Caring Skills in Ministry, Nashville, Abingdon Press.
Smith, Rosalind, (1998), Simple Healing, Friends Fellowship of Healing
Wright, H. Norman, (2003), The New Guide to Crisis and Trauma Counselling: A Practical Guide for Ministers, Counselors and Lay Counselors, Ventura, California, Regal Books.
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The ministry of reconciliation
Dudley, Martin and Rowell, Geoffrey (eds), (1990), Confession and Absolution, London, SPCK.
Hellwig, Monika, (1991), Sign of Reconciliation and Conversion: The Sacrament of Penance for Our Time, Minnesota, The Liturgical Press.
Jones, Gregory, (1995), Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis, Michigan, William B Eerdmans Publishing Company.
McFayden, Alistair, Sarot, Marcel and Thistleton, Anthony (eds), (2001), Forgiveness and Truth: Explorations in Contemporary Theology, Edinburgh, T&T Clark.
Monbourquette, John, (2000), How to Forgive: a step-by-step guide, Ottawa, Novalis.
Parker, Russ, Forgiveness is Healing, (1993), London, Darton, Longman and Todd.
Pattison, Stephen, (2000), Shame: Theory, Therapy, Theology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Rahner, Karl SJ, (1975), , Allow Yourself to Be Forgiven: Penance Today, Dimension Books.
Schreiter, Robert, (1992), Reconciliation: Mission and Ministry in a Changing Social Order, New York, Orbis Books.
Schreiter, Robert, (1999), The Ministry of Reconciliation: Spirituality and Strategies, New York, Orbis Books.
Smith, Martin L SSJE, (1986), Reconciliation: Preparing for Confession, Oxford, A R Mowbray & Co.
Weaver, Andrew and Furlong, Monica (eds), (2000), Reflections on Forgiveness and Spiritual Growth, Nashville, Abingdon Press.
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Specific and specialist forms of the healing ministry
Dudley, Martin and Rowell, Geoffrey (eds), (1993), The Oil of Gladness, London, SPCK.
Empereur, J, (1985), ‘Anointing and the Handicapped’, The Way, vol.25, no.2, London, 1985, 122-131.
Hargrave, Terry, (1994), Families and Forgiveness: Healing Wounds in the Intergenerational Family, Levittown, USA, Brunner/Mazel.
Larson-Miller, Lizette, (2005), Lex Orandi Series: The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick, Collegeville, Minnesota, Liturgical Press.
Leech, Kenneth, (1994), Soul Friend, Darton Longman & Todd.
Linn, Dennis and Linn, (1984), Matthew, Healing of Memories: prayer and confession steps to inner healing, Mahwah, Paulist Press.
Linn, Matthew, Linn, Sheila Fabricant and Linn, Dennis, (1995), Healing Religious Addiction, London, DLT.
Linn, Matthew, Linn, Sheila Fabricant and Linn, Dennis, (1988), Healing the Eight Stages of Life, New York, Paulist Press.
McAll, Kenneth, (1984), Healing the Family Tree, London, Sheldon Press.
Mitton, Michael and Parker, Russ, (1991), Requiem Healing, London, DLT.
Parker, Russ and Mitton, Michael, (2001), Healing Wounded History, London, DLT.
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Deliverance ministry, complementary medicine, alternative therapies, and related areas
Coker, Dr Robina, (1995), Alternative Medicine: Helpful or Harmful? Monarch Publications.
Micozzi, M. S., (Ed), (1996), Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, New York, Churchill Livingstone.
Linn, Matthew and Linn, Dennis, (1981), Deliverance Prayer: Experiential, Psychological and Theological Approaches, New York, Paulist Press.
Perry, Michael, (1992), Gods Within: A Critical Guide to the New Age, London, SPCK.
Perry, Michael(Ed), (1996), Deliverance, London, SPCK.
Pontifical Council for Culture; Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, (2003), Jesus Christ: The Bearer of the Water of Life, London, The Catholic Truth Society.
Pym, Jim, (2003), What Kind of God, What Kind of Healing?, Friends Fellowship of Healing.
Saliba, John, (1999), Christian Responses to the New Age Movement, New York, Geoffrey Chapman.
Springhouse Corporation, (2001), Professional Guide to Complementary and Alternative Therapies, Springhouse, Pennsylvania. Springhouse Corporation,.
Walker, Dominic, OGS, (1997), The Ministry of Deliverance, London, Darton, Longman and Todd.
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Care for the dying and the bereaved
Ainsworth-Smith, Ian and Speck, Peter, (1982), Letting Go: Caring for the Dying and Bereaved, London, SPCK.
Kolf, June, (2000), Comfort and Care in Final Illness, Sheldon Press.
Kuhbler-Ross, Elizabeth, (1970), On Death and Dying, Routledge.
Pearson, Althea, (1998), Growing through Loss and Grief, Marshall Pickering.
Report of a Working Party, (1991), Mud and Stars: The Impact of Hospice Experience on the Church’s Ministry of Healing, Oxford, Sobell Publications.
Wilcock, Penelope, (1996), Spiritual Care of Dying and Bereaved People, London, SPCK.
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The healing ministry and spiritual growth
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, (1996), Meditations on the Cross, Westminster John Knox Press.
Frankl, Viktor E, (1985), Man’s Search for Meaning, Washington Square Press.
Guenther, Margaret, (1992), Holy Listening: the Art of Spiritual Direction, London, Darton, Longman and Todd.
Hood, R. W., Spilka, B., Hunsberger, B., and Gorsuch, R., (1996),The Psychology of Religion, New York, The Guildford Press.
Hughes, Gerard, (1998), God of Compassion, Hodder & Stoughton.
Kushner, Harold S., (1982), When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Pan Books Ltd.
Leech, Kenneth, (1989), Spirituality and Pastoral Care, Massachusetts, Cowley Publications.
Liebert, Elizabeth, (2000), Changing Life Patterns, St Louis, Chalice Press.
Mann, Ivan, (2001), A Double Thirst: Reaching Beyond Suffering, London, DLT.
McGrath, Alistair, (2000), Why Does God Allow Suffering? Hodder and Stoughton.
Nash, Wanda, Christ, Stress and Glory, London, Darton, Longman and Todd,
Nouwen, Henri, (1994), The Wounded Healer, London, Darton, Longman & Todd.
Poel, Cornelius J van der, (1999), Wholeness and Holiness: A Christian Response to Human Suffering, Wisconsin, Sheed and Ward,.
Pytches, Mary, Set My People Free, Hodder and Stoughton.
Rodd, C S (1998), Why Evil and Suffering? Epworth Press.
Stufford, Margaret, (1989), Celebration: A Story of Suffering and Joy, Mowbray.
Vanier, Jean, (1998), The Broken Body: Journey Towards Wholeness, London, Darton, Longman & Todd.
Vanstone, W. H, (1982), The Stature of Waiting, London, Darton, Longman & Todd.
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Meeting the needs for healing within the local community
Aldridge, David, One Body: (1987), A Healing Ministry in Your Church, London, SPCK. .
Evans, Abigail Rian, (1999), The Healing Church, United Church Press.
Evans, Pamela, (1999), Driven Beyond the Call of Duty, The Bible Reading Fellowship.
Fox, M., (1979), A Spirituality Named Compassion and the Healing of the Global Village, Minneapolis, Winston Press.
Graham, Elaine, (1996), Transforming Practice: Pastoral Theology in an Age of Uncertainty, London, Mowbray.
Murren, Doug. (1999), Churches that Heal, Howard Publishing.
Penton, John, (1999), Widening the Eye of the Needle: Access to Church Buildings for People with Disabilities London, Church House Publishing.
Percy, Martyn, (1998), Power and the Church: Ecclesiology in an Age of Transition, London, Cassel.
Randall, Robert L, (1992), What People Expect from the Church, Lyle E Schaller (Ed) Abingdon Press.
Sanders, Cheryl J., (1997), Ministry at the Margins, InterVarsity Press.
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Prayers and liturgies for healing
Prayers for Health and Healing: An SPCK Prayer Collection, (2000), London, SPCK.
The Iona Community Worship Book, (1991), Glasgow, Wild Goose Publications.
Archbishops’ Council, The, (2000), ‘Common Worship’, series of authorised liturgy, including: Pastoral Services, Services and Prayers for the Church of England, London, Church House Publishing.
Ashwin, Angela, (1996), A Little Book of Healing Prayer, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Zondervan.
Burgess, Ruth & Galloway, Kathy (eds), (2000), Praying for the Dawn, Glasgow, Wild Goose Publications.
Cowie, Ian, (1995), Prayers and Ideas for Healing Services, Glasgow, Wild Goose Publications.
Dossey, Larry, Bennison, Herbert, Polkinghorn, John , and others, (1999), ‘Healing through Prayer’, Anglican Book Centre.
Evans, Abigail Rian, (2004), Healing Liturgies for the Seasons of Life, London, Westminster John Knox Press.
Green, Thomas, (1992), When the Well Runs Dry, Ave Maria Press.
Gunstone, John, (1992), Prayers for Healing, Guildford, Highland.
Gunstone, John (2004), Healed, Restored, Forgiven: Liturgies, Prayers and Readings for the Ministry of Healing, Norwich, Canterbury Press.
Hampsch, John H, CMF, (1999), The Healing Power of the Eucharist, Charis.
Heron, Benedict, OSB, (1989), Praying for Healing: New Life Publishing.
Klug, Lyn (compiled by), (1999), The Way of Healing, Oxford, Lion Publishing Ltd.
Linn, Matthew, Linn, Sheila Fabricant and Linn, Dennis, (1994), Praying with Another for Healing.
Linn, Matthew, Linn, Sheila Fabricant and Linn, Dennis, (1998), Simple Ways to Pray for Healing, Paulist Press.
McManus , Jim CSSR, (1999), The Healing Power of the Sacraments, St Paul Press.
Mello, Anthony de, (1997), Praying Body and Soul, Blackrock, Co Dublin, The Columba Press.
Noblett, William, (1998), Prayers for People in Prison, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Phillips, Sara Webb, (Ed.), (2006), Pastoral Prayers for the Hospital Visit, Nashville, Abingdon Press.
Rahner, Karl, (1997), The Need and the Blessing of Prayer, translated by Bruce W Gillette, Collegeville, The Liturgical Press.
Rahner, Karl, (1997), Prayers for a Lifetime, edited by Albert Raffelt, New York, Crossroad.
Ramon, Brother and Barrington-Ward, Simon, (2001), Praying the Jesus Prayer Together, Oxford, The Bible Reading Fellowship.
Shlemon, Barbara Ryan, Dennis Linn & Matthew Linn, (1997), To Heal as Jesus Healed, Resurrection Press
Smith, Neville, (1994), Prayers for People in Hospital, Oxford, OUP.
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