Healing Worship | Purpose and Practice (Epperly)

Holistic Church Life

Healing Worship: Purpose and Practice is a resource to enable pastors and other church leaders to integrate healing services into the total life of the church using a holistic approach that connects healing liturgies with the theology, pastoral care, and social concerns of the church.

The book provides practical tools for healing homilies and liturgies, theological reflection on the healing ministry of the church, pastoral self-care, and congregational health care ministries.

About the Author

Bruce G. Epperly has dual standing as an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He is professor of practical theology and director of continuing education at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books.

Paperback: 144 pages (5.5 x 8.5 in.)
ISBN 978-0-8298-1742-3
2006