Psychotherapy; a course of reading in sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion. . cosmic miracles. There is no con-sciousness in the Gospel that the evidence in the one case is differentfrom the evidence in the other. The whole narrative flows onsmoothly with no break, such as might be expected in a modernauthor who turns from matters entirely disparate from the modernpoint of view. Objectively, therefore, the evidence for the healingof diseases stands in the Gospels themselves on the same basis as theevidence for the other miraculous actions of Christ. This absenceof distinction be
Psychotherapy; a course of reading in sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion. . cosmic miracles. There is no con-sciousness in the Gospel that the evidence in the one case is differentfrom the evidence in the other. The whole narrative flows onsmoothly with no break, such as might be expected in a modernauthor who turns from matters entirely disparate from the modernpoint of view. Objectively, therefore, the evidence for the healingof diseases stands in the Gospels themselves on the same basis as theevidence for the other miraculous actions of Christ. This absenceof distinction between what might have been commonly known atthe time about an ordinary event, whether a fact or a word, andwhat might have been almost impossible to establish, is a commontrait in ancient literature. Mental Healing was not Considered Remarkable THE writers of the Gospels in regard to psychotherapy are notapologists. In other words, they were not trying to persuadepeople to believe in the possibility of mental healing. It cannot be 1 See note under The Next Article on preceding page.[70]. HEALING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT too often remembered that the ancient public of the imperial periodwas not like the modern public of America and England. Often-times we see in the course of the Gospels that things are representedas impressing the Jewish contemporaries of Christ in a way very dif-ferent from the way in which they would impress the people of to-day. The overshadowing subject of discussion among the Jews atthat time was the question of the Messiah. It is evident from rab-binical literature that the healing of diseases without the use of med-icine or doctors was not looked upon by the Jews of the first cen-tury as in any way remarkable in itself. A reliable rabbinical scholar, Dr. Edersheim, notes that manydiseases were thought to be caused by direct demoniac agency. Thus,leprosy, Rabeia (heart disease), madness, asthma, croup, and otherdiseases were ascribed to special demons. A cons
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