Faith healing, or divine healing, has played an
important historical role within the preaching and
practice of the Pentecostal movement. Deliverance
was seen as an integral part of the healing ministry of
the church, with Pentecostals believing that the devil
and his demons, as well as “demon-possession”, are
an undeniable part of modern believers’ lives. In this
article the historical development of the teaching about
demonology, demonisation and deliverance in the
Pentecostal movement, with emphasis on the Apostolic
Faith Mission (AFM) of South Africa as a South African
component of the movement, is investigated. It is
concluded that the AFM has lost interest in this
teaching and the practice of deliverance over the past
three decades, that a systematic treatment of the
subject has never been undertaken, and that a number
of important issues have never been addressed.
Citation:Nel, M. 2008,'A church historical perspective on demonisation, deliverance and the Apostolic Faith Mision of South Africa',
Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, vol. XXXIV, no. 1, pp. 385-410.
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