Healing Marks. Bruce G Epperly

[3] Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (Boston: The Christian Science Board of Directors, 1994).

[4] See Louise Hay, You Can Heal Your Life (Los Angeles: Jay House, 1999); Rhonda Byrne, The Secret (New York: Atria Books, 2006); A Course in Miracles (Mill Valley, CA: Foundation for Inner Peace, 1975).

[5] Harvey Cox, Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of American Religion in the Twenty-first Century (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2001).

[6] Harold Koenig, The Healing Power of Faith (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001); Dale Matthews, The Faith Factor: The Proof of the Healing Power of Prayer (New York: Penguin, 1999).

[7] Herbert Benson, The Relaxation Response (New York: Mass Market Paperbacks, 1976) and Beyond the Relaxation Response (New York: Mass Market Paperbacks, 1985).

[8] Larry Dossey, Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine (San Francisco: Harper One, 1995).

[9] Philip Jenkins, The New Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

[10] See the bibliography for texts on Mark’s Gospel.

[11] Some of the non-canonical gospels include the Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Judas, Pistis Sophia, and the Gospel of Philip. For more on these gospels, see Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (New York: Viking Press, 1989).

[12] For more on the theology of healing, see Bruce Epperly, God’s Touch: Faith, Wholeness, and the Healing Miracles of Jesus (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2001) and Healing Worship: Purpose and Practice (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2006).