![]() ![]() With its emphasis on the humanity common to minister and believer, the book takes on the character of an exhortation to love or as Nouwen phrases it, to ""hospitality"" - an openness and a willingness to give which enables the minister to make use of his own wounded condition as a source of healing to others. Far from disabling the minister, his own wound should provide the means - the understanding and compassion, the faith and the hope - for him, if not to heal the wound, then at least to assuage the pain. ![]() Instead it promotes a basic approach for the minister at work in a dislocated world, an approach based upon recognition of the fact that not only the world and man, but the minister himself, are ""wounded"" and in search of healing. It does not, however, suggest techniques for handling various pastoral situations. Nouwen's book might be described as a ""minister's handbook"" if it were possible to write such a book today. ![]()
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