Talk:Laying on of hands

message: I'm adding a science master thesis from 2003 that concluded that imposition of the hands does promote healing. I'm also adding a "Criticism" session and hope people do help to improve it. To have Knowledge is to see the whole, impartial picture. H15 H16N355 |K1N6 M3 (T47K) 20:10, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Made the changes but won't remove the Unbalanced tag as the article's text needs improvement. H15 H16N355 |K1N6 M3 (T47K) 16:37, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Lacking both sides of the discussion

message: I've always taken issue with the grammar of "lay on hands", but it seems to make a bit more sense as "the laying on of hands".  Even given that, though, the ultimately correct grammar would be to hyphenate "laying-on", highlighting the fact that "on" is a particle describing "laying" (in "lay on hands", the lack of hyphen leaves the reader assuming that somebody is laying something on top of somebody else's hands).  I'm wondering if anyone has a good reason (i.e. recurring instances in English literature to the contrary) why the hyphen shouldn't be included. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.168.161.140 (talk) 01:00, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The phrase "laying on of hands" makes it clear that "on" is being used as an adverb rather than as a preposition, so that one is not laying something on someone's hands. Michael Hardy (talk) 21:21, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Russian Orthodox Episcopal Ordination.jpg

message: The section named "Catholicism" seems to deal only with Eastern Orthodox and Eastern rite Catholic traditions.  We need to expand it to include Latin rite information.  Anyone up to the task?  --anietor (talk) 14:49, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catholicism section lacking 

message: This article only describes laying of hands in a Christian context.  There are, of course, many other uses that should be in the article; for example !Kung people. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 12:07, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, but am not qualified to provide what is lacking. I hope that future editors will remedy this problem by adding information about other cultures and traditions, and not by removing existing relevant info. MishaPan (talk) 18:06, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unbalanced 

message: The Concise OED gives 'ritual' as being derived from 'rite', a form of procedure in a religious or solemn observance. Although the laying on of hands is used in certain rites, it is not in itself a formal ritual, as the article's image makes abundantly clear. Intro amended accordingly.Clivemacd (talk) 15:20, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ritual and practice 

message: We're in the scriptures of the bible,that was laying down of hands on someone in order for the person to receive the holy spirit 197.242.101.32 (talk) 15:09, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Quick question