Healing the Sacred Divide by Jean Benedict Raffa
Healing the Sacred Divide is timely: As issues of faith and women drive our political dialogue at national and local levels, it offers a highly useful window into troublesome assumptions rarely recognized. Bringing these into the open can be enormously helpful for resolving conflict and promoting fruitful compromise between entrenched parties. Author Jean Benedict Raffa first explores eight common ways of thinking about God that create strife in ourselves and contribute to the rampant divisiveness in our world. She then helps us see (and work with) the emotional ignorance of this situation that spoils relationships--through distorting what we think God and others want of and for us. Raffa then invites us to entertain what she calls an integrated God-image. She offers it as a basis from which to bridge differences and work creatively with fundamental dualities such as masculine/feminine, good/evil, relationship/individuality, heart/head, subjectivity/objectivity, experience/belief, mystery/clarity, etc. In the process she explores a variety of personal crises and political dysfunctions that arise from overemphasizing masculine ego-values in ourselves and our conception of God, and ways to overcome them by honoring feminine values equally. Doing so, she says, makes available nine wisdom gifts that offer a reprieve from unrelenting anxiety and guilt about never being good enough, and help us connect intimately with what feels truly sacred to us. From there, she suggests, we are in a much better position to make peace with ourselves and one another, and to contribute together to humanity's noblest dream of universal peace, justice, and love
Raffa, Jean Benedict: - A former television producer and college professor, Dr. Raffa changed directions in midlife to discover and write about her passions. Informed by over 30 years of psychological and spiritual study, her books and teachings guide others to growth and self-empowerment.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781936012602 |
| ISBN 10 | 193601260X |
| Title | Healing the Sacred Divide |
| Author | Jean Benedict Raffa |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Larson Publications |
| Year published | 2012-06-16 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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