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faith healing

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faith healer
n.
One who treats disease with prayer.
faith healing n.
faith healing
n
treatment of a sick person through the supposed power of religious faith
faith healer  n
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Noun1.faith healingfaith healing - care provided through prayer and faith in God
faith cure
care, tending, attention, aid - the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needs constant attention"
laying on of hands - the application of a faith healer's hands to the patient's body
Translations
faith healing n → guarigione f mistica
faith healing n → guarigione f mistica


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Daneel, Zionism and Faith Healing in Rhodesia--Aspects of African Independent Churches (Mouton: The Hague, 1970); Marthinus L.
He sent them out to heal! Reflections on the healing ministry of the ... by Grundmann, Christoffer H. / Currents in Theology and Mission
Unfortunately, his family members all move on in their lives: their father, a know-it-all lawyer, loses himself in alcohol; his mother, who had a cynical view of life before the accident, becomes religious to the point of letting her daughter become the object of faith healing and religious fanaticism; and his overbearing, somewhat sadistic older brother changes too.
Strause, Brian. Maybe a miracle by Theiss, Nola / Kliatt
Was faith healing needed to cure those for whom modern medicine failed, or was the hospital a backup system for patients with insufficient faith?
What can reasonable people learn from a faith healer? by Modisett, Mitchell / The Humanist
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