Healing Wounded History: Reconciling Peoples And Healing Places

by Russ Parker

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.

224 pages, Paperback

First published July 16, 2001

Reviews

[Knightgina · Rating 5 out of 5]

brilliant book, very informative and helpful....lots to ponder on further

[Diane · Rating 3 out of 5]

Written by a pastor, this book looks at healing and reconciliation. It focuses on healing relationships (family or national) and places that have unresolved issues. He discusses this from a spiritual point of view. It is an interesting and important topic, but I thought the book was somewhat unfocused, and jumped from topic to topic too quickly.

[Franco · Rating 5 out of 5]

I find this book very precious in its capacity to look at wounds and grief from a larger perspective, encompassing what has been inherited from past generations. Though the approach is Christian the principles illustrated in this text can apply to any deep spiritual or holistic context. Upon reading Healing Wounded History, I fortified my awareness that there are no personal wounds, all grievances are collective, and that healing comes primarily from stepping out of the isolation of our individual pain, allowing it unite with those of others in the present and past. This awareness is sufficient to boost the healing process, which can be further luminously promoted when people join forces and come together.