Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… of magical and charismatic sociability. People > Science People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Health Irrational Crowd Nature Religion Supernaturalism In 1666 Valentine Greatrakes (Affane, County of Waterford, 14 February 1628 – 28 November … 2 According to Hebert Croft for instance, the Bishop of Gloucester, Greatrakes’s cures were ‘beyond all the power of Nature.’ As for John Beale, a Somerset rector, these were ‘convincing evidence of the powerful name of our Lord Jesus, in … thinkers of that time ‘ watched the Stroker in action, and all of them believed on empirical grounds in the genuine nature of the medical cures reported’ (Fleming 411). These influential men were deeply impressed by Greatrakes’s personal …
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