Healing and Family Spiritual/Emotional Systems
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چکیده
Healing implies a view of wholeness. Working from Jesus' revelation of God on the cross as the self-giving love of Father (I), Son (Thou) and Holy Spirit (We), this article sees human wholeness as spiritual growth toward trinitarian love. Five stages of growth appear from salvation history: initial faith (trust), familial faith (conventional law morality), individuating faith (individually free relation to God), communitarian faith (individuated community) and mission faith (overflowing communitarian love). The family system theories of Murray Bowen and Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy are then examined to fill out the human implications of this community model and are critiqued theologically. The question of how generations are healed is then brought to Scripture. In OT and NT a pattern emerges of acknowledging one's tradition, breaking through to an individual relationship to God's Spirit, and reappropriating one's family and tradition in a spiritually creative way. This pattern then guides suggestions for healing prayer to build trust, to diagnose one's family system and reappropriate it, to deepen one's individual commitment to God's Spirit, and renew one's family and community relationships in the Spirit.
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