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The Mission Charge to the Twelve and Modern Medical Missions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

John Wilkinson
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The group of imperatives usually known as the Mission Charge to the Twelve Disciples deserves consideration for its own sake since it marks an important climax in our Lord's life and ministry, as well as in the experience of those whom he called to be his disciples. It deserves consideration also because in the process of time it became the justification for the medical missionary movement which arose within the Protestant Church in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Today this movement as part of the great worldwide expansion of the Christian Church appears to be coming to an end. It is appropriate, therefore, to look again at what was claimed to be its biblical basis. This article proposes to do this, and to consider medical missions in relation to the Mission Charge to the Twelve Disciples, and in relation to the modern healing ministry of the Church.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , August 1974 , pp. 313 - 328
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1974

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