Authors: Dein, Simon; Littlewood, Roland

Source: Anthropology & Medicine, Volume 14, Number 2, August 2007 , pp. 213-228(16)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

Prayer and verbally answered prayer would seem to offer powerful evidence in relation to the question of human agency. Forty members of an English Pentecostal group completed a questionnaire on prayer: 25 reported an answering voice from God, 15 of them hearing Him aloud. The latter groups were interviewed and characteristics of phenomenology and context elicited. The voice of God cannot be held to be ipso facto pathological and many reported its utility in situations of doubt or difficulty.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13648470701381515

Publication date: 2007-08-01

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