Jesus as Healer

Understanding Jesus Today

by Harold Remus

This book presents in readable, nontechnical language the findings of the latest biblical scholarship on one important aspect of "who Jesus was"--Jesus as healer. It guides readers through the New Testament's portraits of Jesus, setting the stage for these portraits by looking at sickness and its treatment in Jesus' day. The author concludes with a carefully weighed answer to the question "did Jesus really heal?", and offers topics for discussion and suggestions for further reading that allow the interested reader to explore the subject in more detail.

160 pages, Paperback

First published April 3, 1997

Reviews

[Tanja Walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

My main knock on this book is its age, though the scholarship is pretty solid. Much of the book is an overview of Jesus as a healer in each of the four gospels (presented in the order scholars believe they were written), healers in Jesus’s name in Acts, and whether we can rely on the truth of the healing stories. (Conclusion—we can’t know for sure 2,000 years later, but there is modern evidence of “mind over matter” healing and dying). It is a little dry, but it’s a lot like what I read in seminary 29 years ago, and I need to keep up my skills in that kind of academic reading.