[Magdalen] Morton Kelsey, a mentor in healing

[sally.davies at gmail.com]

Our church has organised a seminar on healing this week, presented by
Alexanter Venter from the Vineyard Fellowship who does a lot of lay
training in this area.

We were off to a good start last night - friendly, relaxed presenting
style, and interesting scholarship behind it as far as I can tell with my
own limited knowledge.

He mentioned the difference in worldview between Western and Eastern,
especially in terms of what we can know and whether this is more based on
experience/relationship or more in objective knowledge/rationalism.

For me, it's a very key issue because it comes up all the time in the
course of our work; and as a trained health professional working in a
medical environment but also with an interest in "wholistic" understandings
of health and healing, I feel very caught in the midst of it - especially
considering that many of our cultures here in South Africa are very much
not in the "Western" mindset.

I am decidedly not amongst those who will routinely rubbish "Western
rationalism" because I find (in Western contexts at least) that forays into
the other worldview can have unintended and often dangerous consequences.
But nor can we dismiss the other framework, not least because it's the
typical framework of all Scripture as well as many Christian Saints and
scholars from that day to this.

Along the way, the presenter mentioned an American priest called Morton
Kelsey (I think that's the name) whom he credited as a mentor and an
inspiration in the ministry of healing.

He's also worked alongside John Wimber for a season, which must have been
an amazing experience (he did a very funny impression of an
African-American worship leader singing "Cain killed Abel with the leg of a
table" which he'd actually heard during his time in the USA).

I was wondering if anyone here knew Morton Kelsey or knew of him?

Sally D