[Magdalen] Morton Kelsey, a mentor in healing

[Marilyn Cepeda]

He has written a number of books I have read...I think.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:03 AM <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>