Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Scientific and Pastoral Perspectives on Intercessory Prayer
Larry Van De Creek · 2013
63/100
👎 Skip It
This dialogue between Larry Dossey and eight health care chaplains fills a real gap in clinical pastoral literature, and the multi-voice format is genuinely productive for a topic this contested. But the quantum physics framing of prayer sits well outside accepted physics, and the narrow professional audience means most readers will find this too specialized to be worth seeking out. Hospital chaplains working through questions about prayer research will find it useful; general readers will not.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Dossey's quantum physics framing of prayer is not accepted by mainstream physics or theology; some traditional Christians may find the parapsychology framing theologically uncomfortable. We still scored it 63; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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safety76
substance66
craft60
originality64
accuracy52
hype62
age-fit68
human-eye62
Penny’s verdict63
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