Mac Nutt's Healing explores the meaning and messages behind the author' own struggles with fait, healing, and personal issues. It comes from a Christian perspective and is broken up into four basic parts. The first part is devoted to the importance and meaning of Healing Ministries and helps the reader identify the common misconceptions of the practice as well as outlines the basic structure of the movement. This part of the book is an attempt to cast the Healing Movement as an exclusively Christian path, that is to say that MacNutt believes that true healing can only come through Christ. As author, MacNutt has certainly dealt with his fair share of personal struggles with Christian issues like sexual abuse and addictions. In this way, he comes across as relatively convincing as he guides the reader through the ins and outs of the Healing Ministries.
As far as a critique goes, MacNutt has had off and on issues with homosexuality, which he argues can be healed through faith in God and through his Healing Ministries. From a scientific perspective, or a humanist perspective, this is one of MacNutt's fallacies, the claim that one can be healed from this "affliction." In his own words, he writes that homosexuality and the words of the Bible are irreconcilable, and that through Christ, one can become healed (MacNutt, 1999). This notion is first explored in the first part of the book, and MacNutt's Healing is the first in his series of books that explains how to do so. However, the notion that homosexuality is derived from evil, and can be cured through demonic repossession and exorcism, is something that MacNutt has exclusively claimed within his book.
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