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Agnes Sanford and Her Companions examines the theology of one of the pioneers of the modern inner healing movement. Largely unknown today, Agnes and her husband developed a school to teach ministers and lay leaders healing and deliverance prayer, and the gifts of the Spirit a decade before the charismatic renewal made such things acceptable in mainline churches. Arguably one of the most original...

exorcisms that made proclamation of the kingdom effective (Luke 10:19; Matt 28:18–19; John 1:12). This is an important issue. In future centuries this “disciples’ authority” would be blighted by the assumption that only those of advanced spiritual attainment, such as monks or other saintly persons, could minister healing or deliverance. At the dramatic upper room Pentecost event (Acts 2), the disciples received the baptism in the Holy Spirit and were empowered to carry out the proclamation of the
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