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disciplines. Rather than focusing on questions of doctrinal orthodoxy, we need to understand the
techniques at work. Such a perspective will find common tactics of mind control among many
religions espousing spiritual healing, despite their great differences in Christology.
Notes
1. Kenneth Hagin, The Word of Faith (January 1972) quoted by Frances MacNutt, Healing (New
York. Bantam, 1976).
2. Hagin, ―God‘s Medicine‖ (Tulsa: Kenneth Hagin Ministries, 1985), p. 22.
3. Ibid., p. 22.
Rita Swan, Ph. D. is the founder and president of CHILD (Children’s Healthcare Is A Legal Duty),
a national organization which studies the dynamics of faith healing and advocates a repeal of
statutes that give religious exemptions from parental duties of care.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1988, Volume 5., Number 1,
pages 136-139. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the bound volume.
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disciplines. Rather than focusing on questions of doctrinal orthodoxy, we need to understand the
techniques at work. Such a perspective will find common tactics of mind control among many
religions espousing spiritual healing, despite their great differences in Christology.
Notes
1. Kenneth Hagin, The Word of Faith (January 1972) quoted by Frances MacNutt, Healing (New
York. Bantam, 1976).
2. Hagin, ―God‘s Medicine‖ (Tulsa: Kenneth Hagin Ministries, 1985), p. 22.
3. Ibid., p. 22.
Rita Swan, Ph. D. is the founder and president of CHILD (Children’s Healthcare Is A Legal Duty),
a national organization which studies the dynamics of faith healing and advocates a repeal of
statutes that give religious exemptions from parental duties of care.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1988, Volume 5., Number 1,
pages 136-139. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the bound volume.
This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
