Ethical contexts of healing: Ecclesia and praxis

Conclusion We have suggested that the church is called to reflect the Reign of God. To do so it must engage in a process of careful reflection on its confession that Jesus is Lord. This calls for a relativization of all other communities, the recognition of the church as a community in its own right and the rejection of ethical individualism. To be a healing community it will need to discern a response to the mental health needs around us. In the third article in this series, I will focus on the character of healers that might emerge if we were to take more seriously the Reign of God as an ethical culture and the church as a discerning community.