Healing is one of the fundamental aspects of Christian ministry, reaching into every area of personal and public life. This new book from a leading Christian ethicist offers a practical and pastoral theology that embraces its different dimensions:the biblical notion of health and wholeness,healing in relation to sickness and disease,personal and environmental health,health and social justice,emotional health, pastoral care and counselling,healing and the sacraments.This book rescues the subject of Christian healing from narrow definition and sets it in a wider biblical and theological framework. A book for every priest, ordinand, reader, counsellor and individual Christian in the caring professions or in public life.