A Comparative Analysis of Healing Reports in the Early Christian Literature

This comparative study aims to isolate and analyze similar healing reports found in the Gospel of Luke within the New Testament (NT) and the writings of the Church Fathers (CFs, corpus of writing) to identify similarities, differences, and patterns between healing narratives in these two sources. Specifically, this study examines the writings of Hippolytus of Rome (and if space allows additional church fathers such as Basil of Caesarea or/and Sulpicius Severus will be included) among the church fathers (individuals). The focus will be on comparing the healing accounts in the Gospel of Luke with those found in the selected writings of the Church Fathers. These texts will be analyzed to identify types of healing, phenomena (including methods, actions, and results), similarities, differences, and patterns surrounding similar miraculous healing stories among these sources. Non-healing miracles will not be included in this study.