Culled from lectures he gave over a twenty-one year period (from 1953 to 1974) to members of the Christian Medical Fellowship, the British Medical Association, and the Royal Commonwealth Society, Healing andthe Scriptures is a sampling of Dr. LloydJones's philosophic insight into the physical/spiritual nature of healing, an approach that is today commonly referred to as holistic treatment.
Dr. Lloyd-Jones claimed that "Much loose thinking hascome in at this point. I would without apology venture to make the blunt assertion that Christianity, and Christianity alone, can deal with 'the whole man'. By definition, it alone is capable of undertaking such a task. Medicine is in its right place when it sets out to deal with the bodv and the mind. But it is the task of religion - of the Christian religion - to deal with 'the whole man:"
Drawing from the resources of his medical and theological background, Dr. Lloyd-Jones discusses issues of current concern, including the erosion of the patient-doctor relationship, the separate healing roles of the church and the medical establishment, the power of faith as a healing agent, demonic oppression and possession, the blurred distinction between spiritual and physical illness, and drugs and religious experience.
Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones was known to many as the prince of preachers. Many a pastor and Bible teacher sat and listened to this master pulpiteer, not only to gain insight from his teaching of the Word but also to benefit from the entire communication process as Dr. Lloyd-Jones "ministered to his congregation?' To many, he was known as the Doctor, an affectionate term that sprang from his serial callings as a medical doctor and then as a preacher. His authority with his subject, Healing and the Scriptures, is backed by personal medical expertise as well as scriptural knowledge.
The following pages present typical passages from the papers and addresses given to medical practitioners and students by David Martyn Lloyd-Jones. Widely-internationally known from his thirty years of authoritative preaching in the pulpit of Westminster Chapel; London, he had entered the Christian ministry from the medical profession. He left medicine in 1927, on the threshold of what held the promise of a distinguished career as a consultant physician, and throughout his life he remained deeply attached to the profession. He kept his interest in medical research and continued regularly to read the chief medical journals and literature.

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