Healing Touch: The Church's Forgotten Language
In this helpful book, Zach Thomas shows how clergy, friends, and congregations can reclaim the ancient practice of healing touch. He presents biblical principles that encourage wholesome behavior and protect against unhealthy touch. He provides a model for reflecting on touch in pastoral care, offers case studies that demonstrate how and when clients should be referred to body-work therapists, and provides congregations with guidance in designing appropriate healing services that include the laying on of hands.

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Healing Touch: The Church's Forgotten Language
In this helpful book, Zach Thomas shows how clergy, friends, and congregations can reclaim the ancient practice of healing touch. He presents biblical principles that encourage wholesome behavior and protect against unhealthy touch. He provides a model for reflecting on touch in pastoral care, offers case studies that demonstrate how and when clients should be referred to body-work therapists, and provides congregations with guidance in designing appropriate healing services that include the laying on of hands.

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Healing Touch: The Church's Forgotten Language

Healing Touch: The Church's Forgotten Language

by Zach Thomas
Healing Touch: The Church's Forgotten Language

Healing Touch: The Church's Forgotten Language

by Zach Thomas

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Overview

In this helpful book, Zach Thomas shows how clergy, friends, and congregations can reclaim the ancient practice of healing touch. He presents biblical principles that encourage wholesome behavior and protect against unhealthy touch. He provides a model for reflecting on touch in pastoral care, offers case studies that demonstrate how and when clients should be referred to body-work therapists, and provides congregations with guidance in designing appropriate healing services that include the laying on of hands.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780664251871
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 06/01/1994
Series: Church's Forgotten Language
Edition description: 1st ed
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Zach Thomas is a certified bodywork therapist and minister. He has been a hospital chaplain and a parish minister. He is the founder of the National Association of Bodyworkers in Religious Service.
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