Faith in the Great Physician

Heather Curtis won the Brewer Prize for good reason: this is meticulously researched, accessibly written for an academic press book, and genuinely important for understanding how nineteenth-century evangelicals reshaped American attitudes toward sickness, suffering, and divine healing. The prose is sympathetic to its subjects without abandoning scholarly rigor. Readers interested in Pentecostalism, faith healing, or American religious history will find it essential.