Abstract
This article delves into the development of the healing doctrine of the Pentecostal Holiness Church in which Oral Roberts was born, raised, and ordained to the ministry. Attention is given to the roots of healing teachings from both Europe and America, which were adopted by the Pentecostal movement. The main part of the paper describes the doctrinal statements on healing in the founding documents of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, the widespread acceptance of the Alexander Dowie position on refusing the use of doctors and medicine, the division over the use of remedies that produced the Congregational Holiness Church, and the later changes that emphasized the value of both prayer and medicine in the 1940s. This became the basic healing theology of Oral Roberts’ ministry.
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Synan, Vinson H.
(2018)
"The Pentecostal Roots of Oral Roberts’ Healing Ministry,"
Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology: Vol. 3:
No.
2, Article 12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31380/2573-6345.1091
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