The Healing Light

Short Review: I am really mixed on this. I spent three months reading it because I was frustrated with it, but there were things that I think are helpful in it. Mostly the helpful stuff was toward the end and was about the role of confessions and the sacraments in strengthening the believer and the last chapter about praying for healing of the nations. I do think some of the earlier parts were helpful, but there was a lot that was just bad theology. It was also a very modernist take on prayer trying to take it apart scientifically and treating prayer as a technology that we just do not yet fully understand. I think that is the wrong approach to take when thinking about prayer.

And specifically in regard to healing, this directly falls into the problem of placing blame on either the healer or the one being healed if the healing does not occur. Some of the highlights you can find show examples of this.

I do think it is useful to read books from a different era. This is one that is over 70 years old and still in print. I picked it up because it was mentioned in a biography of Dallas Willard.

My longer review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/the-healing-light-by-agnes-sanford/