Community, church and healing

Here is a radical study in the theology of the Church's whole mission of healing. Surveying the situation of the health services today, dr. Lambourne notes, that there is important agency of healing which is generally neglected - that of the family and neighbours, who in the past bore much of the responsibility; recent developments in organized health services make it plain that the unorganized ministry of family and neighbours is, for one reason and another, playing a smaller part, than before. On the other hand, the
Health Services themselves, particularly in the psychiatric field, are rediscovering the value of the fellowship in a group of community.