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The Wound: And Our Right to Vulnerability – Meditations on Our Times - Couverture souple

Gruwez, Christine

 
9781915776440: The Wound: And Our Right to Vulnerability – Meditations on Our Times
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1915776449 ISBN 13 : 9781915776440
Editeur : Temple Lodge Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

What is a wound – and what does it reveal about our humanity? This book explores the wound not merely as physical or psychological injury, but as a rupture in relationship: a tearing apart of what was once whole. Pain is its signal – disconnection its consequence. Yet beneath every injury lies a deeper mystery. Are human beings wounded simply by virtue of being human? Is there a primordial wound that precedes all others – and if so, how might it be healed?

These questions lie at the heart of this volume, which emerged from an international conference on biographical work held in Dresden in 2015, a city profoundly marked by the devastation of war. At a time when violent conflict has returned to Europe, The Wound’s themes feel urgently contemporary. Drawing on Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on ‘The Mystery of the Wound’, Christine Gruwez explores the wound as both the consequence of destruction and the source of healing. Without a wound, there is no power to heal; without evil, no possibility of redemption.

Gruwez connects these insights to central questions of our time: vulnerability, crisis and the conditions of incarnation itself. She offers readers a key to understanding their own relationship to suffering and for approaching others inwardly and creatively. The book thus becomes a source of inspiration for counselling, biographical work and for all those seeking pathways from separation toward healing, reconciliation and transformation.

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À propos de l'auteur

CHRISTINE GRUWEZ, born in 1942 in Kortrijk (Belgium), studied philosophy, classics and Iranian studies at the University of Leuven. After graduating, she worked as a Waldorf teacher and lecturer in teacher training in Antwerp. Numerous research trips took her overseas, particularly to the Near and Middle East. As an author and speaker, she travels the world giving lectures and seminars. Christine Gruwez lives in Antwerp.

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Éditeur
Temple Lodge Publishing
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1915776449
ISBN 13 
9781915776440
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
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