SPIRIT DEMONIZING INSTIGATORS--ARCHBISHOP WILLIAMS of Canterbury, ARCHBISHOP SENTAMU of York, ARCHBISHOP HENRY OROMBI of UGANDA, BISHOP DREXEL GOMEZ of The West Indies and PB VENABLES of The Province of Southern Cone-alone! Did you know?"Vomiting, interpreted as evil leaving the body, has become the sine qua non in the cultural 'script' of modern exorcism – a practice that is, needless to say, highly controversial. Even Christian ministries who preach that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice and a sin have censured these exorcisms, arguing that they are dangerous.
And the majority of gays who undergo these rites are minors, leading some to suggest that this is a form of child abuse.
But exorcism is actually on the rise and may be more common in America than ever before. In 2008 the Pew Research Center found that 70 per cent of respondents believe that demons are active in the world. Similar findings have been reported by Gallup and the Baylor Religion Survey. However, this resurgence of demonology raises serious questions about where demonic influence ends and individual autonomy begins.
As evidenced in the Gospels, the casting out of demons was an important feature of the early church. In fact, pagans sometimes sought out Christians from whom they could receive exorcisms.
By the early modern period, Catholic Europe had a rich culture of local exorcists. The Ritual Romanum, written in 1614 under Pope Paul V, consolidated popular forms of exorcism into a formal rite. This brought exorcism under the direct control of the church hierarchy and in the modern era, the rite increasingly became a relic.
However, in the 1970s, there was a resurgence of exorcism and quasi-exorcism among evangelical Protestants and charismatic Catholics. These modern practices, often called
“deliverance ministries” rather than exorcism, usually occur outside of ecclesiastic authority.
Modern deliverance ministries espouse a form of demonology entirely different from that found in ancient times. Until the twentieth century, the quintessential case of possession was the Gerasenes demoniac, with an alternate personality, a total lack of socialisation, and
supernatural abilities. But the demons cast out by deliverance ministries are rarely alternate personalities like The Exorcist’s Pazuzu. Instead, they are usually aspects of the person’s normal personality that are deemed demonic. McKinney explained,
“You have the alcohol spirit. You have the crack cocaine spirit. You have the adulterous spirit. Everything carries a spirit...” read it all, HEREThanks to By Joseph Laycock
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