Vergelyking tussen die genesingsteologie van John G Lake en Hannes Jonker
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Nel, Marius
Issue Date
2006
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Article
Language
en
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John G Lake , Hannes Jonker , Spiritual healing , Pentecostalism
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In this article the theological thinking on healing of two leaders in
the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (AFM) is discussed.
John G Lake, together with Thomas Hezmalhalch, came to South
Africa in 1908 to preach the Pentecostal message. From their work
the AFM originated. Lake did his apprenticeship with Dowie and his
Zionist Movement, where divine healing received great emphasis.
Hannes Jonker joined the AFM at the end of the 1980s and spent
his academic life at a theological seminary, writing about and
practicing divine healing. There are remarkable similarities between
these two men’s ideas. Both preferred the term ‘divine healing’ in
order to emphasise that healing is the exclusive work of God. Both
explained illness in terms of sin, and healing in terms of the
atonement. Both of them emphasised that the local congregation is
the body of Christ mediating healing to ill people. Differences
between them consist of the way they use the Bible in their attitude
towards medical help; and Jonker’s admission that sickness might
in some instances be inexplicable, while Lake persisted in his view
that all illness can be treated in a biblical way.
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Nel, Marius 2006,'Vergelyking tussen die genesingsteologie van John G Lake en Hannes Jonker',
Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, vol. XXXII, no. 1, pp. 263-284.
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Church History Society of Southern Africa
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1017-0499