Jeremy Davies (exorcist)

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Jeremy Davies (born 1935 in London ) is an English Roman Catholic priest , former doctor and leading exorcist .

biography

Davies studied English literature at St Edmund Hall , Oxford and medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. After completing his medical degree in 1967, he worked in mission hospitals in Guyana , Nigeria and Ghana . He was ordained a priest in 1974. After four months of training in Rome , he was appointed exorcist of the Archdiocese of Westminster in 1987 and has carried out exorcisms ever since.

In 1993 he founded the International Association of Exorcists with the Italian priest Gabriele Amorth , which now has around 250 members worldwide. In 2008 the Catholic Truth Society published his book on exorcism under the title Understanding Exorcism in Scripture and Practice .

Positions

In his book on exorcism, Jeremy Davies identifies promiscuity , homosexuality, and pornography as forms of sexual perversion that can lead to demonic possession . He also holds Satan responsible for blinding most of the secular humanists about the "dehumanizing functions of contraception, abortion and IVF ...". Extreme secular humanism, "atheistic scientism ", is comparable to "rational Satanism ", which leads Europe into a dangerous state of apostasy . One could only part with it through a serious personal decision for Christ and the Church.

In his book, Davies also warns against practices of the so-called New Age and occultism , relaxation through yoga , entertainment through horoscopes or enneagrams and finally against alternative therapies with roots in Eastern religions, such as Reiki or acupuncture . He sees apparently occult activities such as séances or witchcraft as "direct invitations to the devil, which the devil willingly accepts."

In a book review, Davies describes the Hindu religion as "a strange mixture of pantheism and nihilism ".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exorcisms On the Rise (English)
  2. ↑ Short biography ( memento of July 8, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ↑ TLDM (These Last Days Ministries, August 2008)
  4. ^ Yoga, Tai Chi, Reiki: A Guide for Christians, by Max Sculley DLS

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personal data
SURNAME Davies, Jeremy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English Roman Catholic priest, doctor, and exorcist
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH London