faith healing

noun

: a method of treating diseases by prayer and exercise of faith in God

faith healer noun

Examples of faith healing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Over the past half-century, as charismatic worship became more common in the United States, practices like speaking in tongues and faith healing have met with greater acceptance, and the number of nondenominational Protestants in the United States has grown. —

Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 28 June 2023 Party regulars were uncomfortable with his religious claims of faith healing and his political platform, which called for the abolition of Social Security as a government program. —

Kathryn Harris, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023 Since the 1970s, Charismatic Catholicism has been a way to keep many Catholics attracted to Pentecostalism inside the ranks, with faith healing and speaking in tongues, combined with distinctively Catholic features including devotion to the Virgin Mary. —

Samantha Pearson, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022 Decades worth of evidence has shown that faith healing does not work, and in many cases the children in the Followers of Christ church had easily treatable illnesses and needn't have died. —

Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2011 The Followers of Christ, a fringe Christian group, advocates faith healing and not standard medicine, and as a result several children in that group have died in recent years. —

Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2011 Specifically, if the bill passes, parents who use faith healing instead of real medicine for their children can face murder or manslaughter charges if the child dies due to lack of medical care. —

Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2011 Zion was founded in 1900 as a Christian theocracy by John Alexander Dowie, an evangelical and early Pentecostal preacher who drew thousands to the city with his faith healing ministry. —

From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2022 See More

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