Teaching and Healing

Scholars of the New Testament and early Christianity frequently cite Jesus’ first century ministry as having two primary components – teaching and healing. New Testament scholar, Dale Allison, writes: 
“We are more sure that Jesus was a healer than that any account of him healing reflects a historical event, more sure that he was a prophet than that any one prophetic oracle goes back to him… Early Christians took for granted that miracles enveloped the life of their savior. Indeed, their foundational communal narrative […] was one long string of miracles.”
Bill Thetford, the Course’s co-scribe, caught onto this pairing. He wrote the following after the Course scribing was completed: 
“I thought spirituality had two main aspects in the world: teaching and healing. The Course is teaching obviously, but how does one really heal?…  At the time [around 1973], I was very involved in learning about healing. I felt that teaching and healing were really what it was all about. Because we had ‘A Course in Miracles,’ which had to do with mysticism, I thought it was important to know about healing.”
This website and the content herein is especially concerned with this pairing, and promoting and using the concept of spiritual healing within the Course’s framework for healing others. The Course has gained in popularity over its first fifty years based on its teaching spirituality in the form of an educational program. There is also a tradition for healing that is equal in magnitude to its overall program that awaits further attention from the larger community of Course students.