faith healing

American  

noun

1. healing effected through prayer or religious faith; divine healing.

2. a method employing faith or prayer in the hope of receiving such healing.

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faith healing British  

noun

1. treatment of a sick person through the supposed power of religious faith

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Other Word Forms

• faith healer noun

Etymology

Origin of faith healing

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Charismatics emphasize practices that used to be fringe in American Christianity, such as “ideas of faith healing or miracles, prophecy, and the occult/demonic forces of opposition,” are normalizing as charismatic Christianity surges, he added.

From Salon

Charismatics emphasize practices that used to be fringe in American Christianity, such as "ideas of faith healing or miracles, prophecy, and the occult/demonic forces of opposition," are normalizing as charismatic Christianity surges, he added.

From Salon

Since 2014, opponents of faith healing have lobbied the Idaho Legislature to change the law, but efforts have stalled amid concerns over parental rights and religious and medical freedom.

From Seattle Times

Zion was founded in 1900 as a Christian theocracy by John Alexander Dowie, an evangelical and early Pentecostal preacher who drew thousands to the city with his faith healing ministry.

From Seattle Times

It has all sorts of religious teachings which he takes from various strands of African-American religious traditions, as well as things like New Thought, which is a 19th-century Protestant idea, very American, faith healing.

From Salon