Healing Wounded History: Reconciling Peoples and Healing Places: 12 - Softcover

Russ Parker

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9780232522518: Healing Wounded History: Reconciling Peoples and Healing Places: 12

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ISBN 10: 0232522510 ISBN 13: 9780232522518

Publisher: Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd, 2001

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Parker argues that in terms of pastoral care and healing, it is crucial to approach persons not simply as individuals, but as individuals in community. He begins by reflecting on the biblical image of healing the land and the related concepts of the power of wounded stories and the witness of confession. Parker then considers the roles that confession and apology play in bringing about reconciliation and the healing of relationships at a range of group and institutional levels, including family, congregation, community, and nation.

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'Russ Parker s ground-breaking work on healing community history will be so helpful to churches. It has greatly helped me.' --The Rt Revd Graham Dow, former Bishop of Carlisle

'Russ Parker . . . gives such food for thought. This is a subject that touches us all whether we like it or not. Personal hurts, group hurts, national hurts. Humans have an infinite capacity to hurt and damage each other, as they have done through the ages. This book shows that we, you and I, can do something about it.' --thegoodbookstall

'A book infused with the wisdom that only comes from the Spirit of God.' --John Dawson, from the Foreword

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