Miracles and the New Psycholoyy. By E. R. Micklem. (Oxford
University Press. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is an examination of the miracles of Jesus Christ as recorded in the New Testament in the light of modern psychology and psychotherapy. Modern scientific psychotherapy, the author holds, may offer considerable assistance to our understanding of the cures recorded in the New Testament, though it does not, of course, supply a complete explanation of them. Some interesting examples of modern cures are given as possible parallels to the Biblical examples, and there is information concerning the superstitions and beliefs prevalent in Palestine in the time of our Lord. The book is an interesting and conscientious piece of work and the subject is treated, we may mention, in a religious and not merely a scientific spirit.
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