Healing Wounded History: Reconciling Peoples And Healing Places

by Russ Parker

Overview

An exciting presentation of a fresh approach to healing by one of the UK's leading exponents of pastoral care and Christian healing.

Russ Parker explores the power of wounded group stories and reveals how they affect the people and places where they first occurred. He shows how history repeats itself until we find ways to listen to it, locate where it is happening, and find healing for its consequences.

Healing Wounded History introduces the role of strategic prayer known as 'representional confession' and demonstrates how it makes reconciliation and renewal possible for families, churches, communities, tribes and nations.

This book is groundbreaking in its ideas, consistent in its theology, and gentle in its approach.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780281066254
Publisher:	SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge)
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

The Rev Dr Russ Parker has been director of Acorn Christian Healing Foundation since 1995. He has a post graduate degree in Phenomenology and Theology from Nottingham University, and was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree from Columbia Evangelical Seminary in the USA in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Christian ministry. His many publications include Forgiveness is Healing SPCK, 2011.

Table of Contents

1. Healing the land: An overview

2. Land as gift and sacrament

3. The importance and power of memories
4. The powers that shape group stories
5. The role of reconciliation
6. Representational confession: the right to reconcile
7. Jesus; the true representational confessor
8. The family group study
9. The Church group study
10. The Christian day of atonement
11. The community group story
12. The tribal or nation group study