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Petitpierre, Dom Robert.
Exorcism: The Report of a Commission Convened by the Bishop of Exeter.
Publisher: S.P.C.K, London;
Date of Publication: 1972
Stock Code: 15534
First edition. Duodecimo pamphlet, pp., 58. Publisher’s citron wraps bound on two staples; titled in blue to upper cover; blurb to lower cover. Four page typescript on deliverance by Christopher Neil-Smith tipped in; contemporary newspaper clippings on exorcism tipped in. Stapled rusted; a few fingermarks to covers; corners a little creased. Internally clean. A very good copy. An uncommon SPCK pamphlet on exorcism, which became the foundation for the Church of Englands’s reformed stance on deliverance ministry. The report advocated for exorcism as a healing practice, and much of recommendations remain in place to this day. The typescript (almost certainly duplicated from a handout), provides guidelines for exorcists from one of Britain’s most prolific deliverance ministers. Neil-Smith performed over 3,000 exorcisms, wrote extensively on the paranormal and on evil as a force in the world, and secured his fame following the publication of William Peter Blatty’s ‘The Exorcist’ (1970), which elevated him as an expert on deliverance and parapsychology. £45.00