Visions and Healing in the Acts of the Apostles.Visions and Healing in the Acts of the Apostles John J. Pilch The Liturgical Press St. John's Abbey, PO Box 7500, Collegeville, MN 56321-7500 0814627978 $14.95 1-800-858-5450 www.litpress.org Professor of Scripture at Georgetown University Georgetown University, in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C.; Jesuit; coeducational; founded 1789 by John Carroll, chartered 1815, inc. 1844. Its law and medical schools are noteworthy, and its archives are especially rich in letters and manuscripts by and John J. Pilch presents Visions and Healing in the Acts of the Apostles: How the Early Believers Experienced God, a close and scholarly examination of the religious ecstatic trance trance (trans) a sleeplike state of altered consciousness marked by heightened focal awareness and reduced peripheral awareness. trance n. experiences and healing events recounted in the Acts of the Apostles. Drawing upon insights from social sciences including cultural anthropology, cognitive neuro-science, and medical anthropology Medical anthropology is a branch of anthropology concerned with the application of anthropological and social science theory and method to better understand health, illness and healing. to facilitate interpretations of these events, Visions and Healing in the Acts of the Apostles is a complex evaluation yet highly accessible and evenhanded e·ven·hand·ed adj. Showing no partiality; fair. e  ven·hand in its treatment of potentially volatile subject. Offering insights that resonate res·o·nate v. res·o·nat·ed, res·o·nat·ing, res·o·nates v.intr. 1. To exhibit or produce resonance or resonant effects. 2. within the realm of understanding regardless of whether one believes the Apostles' visions to be literally factual or subject to interpretation, Visions and Healing in the Acts of the Apostles is a welcome addition to religious studies shelves. |
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