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The Wounded Healer

Henri J.M. Nouwen

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The Wounded Healer is a hope-filled and simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who want to be of service in their church or community, but have found the traditional ways often threatening and ineffective. In this book, Henri Nouwen examines case studies of ministry to contemporary young people (of the 1970s) and delineates how best to reach them. Nouwen proceeds to develop his approach to ministry with an analysis of sufferings -- a suffering world, a suffering generation, a suffering person, and a suffering minister. It is his contention that ministers are called to recognize the sufferings of their time in their own hearts and make that recognition the starting point of their service. For Nouwen, ministers must be willing to go beyond their professional role and leave themselves open as fellow human beings with the same wounds and suffering -- in the image of Christ. In other words, we heal from our own wounds.

Format:

Pages:: 100 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Darton, Longman & Todd

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0232521026

ISBN13:: 9780232521023

kindle Asin:: B00G8ELSFS

The Wounded Healer

Henri J.M. Nouwen

4.23/5 (11048 ratings)

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The Wounded Healer is a hope-filled and simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who want to be of service in their church or community, but have found the traditional ways often threatening and ineffective. In this book, Henri Nouwen examines case studies of ministry to contemporary young people (of the 1970s) and delineates how best to reach them. Nouwen proceeds to develop his approach to ministry with an analysis of sufferings -- a suffering world, a suffering generation, a suffering person, and a suffering minister. It is his contention that ministers are called to recognize the sufferings of their time in their own hearts and make that recognition the starting point of their service. For Nouwen, ministers must be willing to go beyond their professional role and leave themselves open as fellow human beings with the same wounds and suffering -- in the image of Christ. In other words, we heal from our own wounds.

Format:

Pages:: 100 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Darton, Longman & Todd

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0232521026

ISBN13:: 9780232521023

kindle Asin:: B00G8ELSFS

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