Roots of Haiti's Vodou-Christian Faith: African and Catholic Origins: African and Catholic Origins by R. Murray Thomas

Author:R. Murray Thomas [Thomas, R. Murray]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Americas, Caribbean & West Indies, Haiti, World, Religious, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Other Religions; Practices & Sacred Texts, Tribal & Ethnic
ISBN: 9781440832048
Amazon: B00KSLLIZC
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2014-06-19T05:00:00+00:00

Exorcism

The label exorcism refers to a ceremony intended to expel demons from a person, place, or thing. Lewis has proposed that:

Jesus was the premier exorcist of his time. As much as one-quarter of Jesus’ healings were exorcisms. The ability to cast out evil spirits was a sign of true discipleship among the apostles. At least twenty-six references to exorcisms by Jesus may be found in the bible, including, “Jesus preached and cast out devils,” Mark 1: 39. “Jesus gave his twelve disciples the power against unclean spirits, to cast them out,” Matthew 10: 1. “The evil spirits went out of them” Acts 19: 12. “Jesus rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou deaf and dumb spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead, insomuch that many said, He is dead. But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose,” Mark 9: 25–27 [Wickland, 1974]. In the exorcism of a madman Jesus had cast out the foul spirits; the spirits then entered into a herd of pigs who in turn ran over a cliff and drowned in the waters below [Lewis, 1995].

The Roman Catholic Church continued developing the formal rite of exorcism during the medieval era. By 1614 the Rituale Romanum was complete; it is still in use today. (Bancroft, 1998)

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