In the Name of Jesus: Exorcism Among Early Christians.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)

From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: Peters, Nathaniel | Copyright information

IN THE NAME OF JESUS: EXORCISM AMONG EARLY CHRISTIANS

by Graham H. Twelftree

Baker Academic, 352 pages, $26.99

For many Christians, exorcisms seem the stuff of pious legend, not the topic of academic research. But Graham Twelftree, who has published extensively on the subject, has written a thorough, lucid survey of exorcism in the early church up to A.D. 200. Twelftree's findings lead him to conclude that exorcism ranged from being of central impo...