Ms. Erin M. Diericx received her Master of Arts degree from Luther Seminary. This interpretation of John draws from her own experience with Cerebral Palsy. This book is a reprint of her Thesis
2014 0-7734-0073-7 The literary paradigm approach to this study on “healing” examines three key features in Chapter 9 in the Book of John. It provides a literary criticism on the text from an ahistorical view, it examines the autonomy of the text, and points us toward its aesthetic meaning. This approach helps the reader to understand "healing” from the perspective of the individual’s physical healing as well as his psychosocial and spiritual healing experience.