Healing : some definitions / statements


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

...Healing embraces all aspects of one’s life; that is, it includes tackling unemployment, breakdown of relationships, bad harvests, lost cows, evil spirits, bodily illness, and misfortune. In short, healing becomes an act of restoring and maintaining God’s creation against all forces that inhibit the fulfillment of individuals in society.  Evidently, this healing is a political struggle against structural forces behind unemployment, breakdown of family relationships, poverty and lack of success. (Musa W. Dube, "Readings of Semoya"in: Gerald O. West and Musa W. Dube (eds.), "Reading With", African Ouvertures (SBL Semeia Studies; n° 73), Atlanta 1996, p. 126) 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Healing is a process which includes making meaning of life’s lesions.  (Kaja Finkler, Women in pain,: Gender and Morbidity in Mexico,  Philadelphia 1994, p.12;  and: Elaine M. Wainwright, Women Healing/Healing Women, The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity, London 2006, p.9)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

About the question: where does healing begin?

„In „Butterfly Burning“ the township is inside the city and inside the township is Kwela music. Inside the township, inside Kwela, is the wound. But the wound is the place from which to create in the city. Not only this – the wound seems to relate directly to joy, to a sense of joy that permeates her work, that permeates the sound of Kwela and the sound of her fiction.“ (Sarah Nuttall, who is writing about Yvonne Vera’s novel: Butterfly Burning (Baobab Books, Harare 1998), in: "Forthcoming, Inside the City: Urban Topographies in Yvonne Vera’s Fiction", in Robert Muponde/Ranka Primorac (eds.): Versions of Zimbabwe: Literature, History and Politics. Quotation found in Jonathan Draper (ed.): Orality, Literacy and Colonization, Leiden 2004, p. 234)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Healing, with its complexities, attempts to realign the natural and supra-natural realms. They cannot be separated. (Mogomme Alpheus Masoga, "Becoming Ngaka: Coming to Terms with Oral Narrative Discourses", in Jonathan Draper (ed.), Orality, Literacy and Colonization, Leiden 2004  p. 224)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 


Healing is ...a process toward health and wholeness... It embraces what God has achieved for human beings through the incarnation of Jesus Christ... God’s gifts of healing are occasionally experienced instantly or rapidly but in most cases healing is a gradual process taking time to bring deep restoration to health at more than one level. (A time to heal. A Report for the House of Bishops of the General Synod of the Church of England on the Healing Ministry, London  2000. Quotation found in: Come, Holy Spirit, Heal and Reconcile (Preparatory Paper N° 11, § 33), Athens 2005, p.8) 
                   
There exists a wider definition of healing which includes efforts of persons, movements, societies and churches for fundamental transformation of structures which produce poverty, exploitation, harm and sickness or illness. (Come, Holy Spirit, Heal and Reconcile (Preparatory Paper N° 11, § 67), Athens 2005, p.18)

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...Nations need to acknowledge and develop a relationship of liberating interdependence. (Musa W. Dube, "Divining Ruth For International Relations"in: Musa W. Dube (ed.), Other Ways of Reading, African Women and the Bible, Atlanta/Geneva 2001, p. 193)

Nations are never pure or independent, but they are interdependent, interconnected, and multicultural. This recognition means that creating and maintaining healthy relations is indispensable medication in healing our world, and in proclaming life and success within and outside the nations. (Musa W. Dube, "Divining Ruth For International Relations", in: Musa W. Dube (ed.), Other Ways of Reading, African Women and the Bible, Atlanta/Geneva 2001, p. 194)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

It belongs to the very essence of the Church – understood as the body of Christ created by the Holy Spirit – to live as a healing community.  (Come, Holy Spirit, Heal and Reconcile (Preparatory Paper N° 11, § 50), Athens 2005, p.13)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Healing: a critical re-weaving of the social fabric (Michael Winkelman/Philip M. Peek (eds.), Divination and Healing, Tucson 2004, p.....)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

…(A)n ecological approach in relation to healing is attentiveness to Earth which supplies the material resources for healing. (Elaine M. Wainwright, Women Healing/Healing Women, The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity, London 2006, p. 20)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Healing in research of health...:
Health is a dynamic state of complete physical, mental, spiritual, economic, political and social and spiritual wellbeing and not merely absence of disease. (Reviews of the Constitution and Regional Arrangements of the World Health Organization 
WHO, Executive Board, 101st session, EB 101/7 Geneva 1997)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Healing in research of health...:

Health is a dynamic state of wellbeing of the individual and the society; of physical, mental, spiritual, economic, political and social wellbeing; of being in harmony with each other, with the material environment and with God. (Healing and Wholeness – the Churches Role in Health. A Report of a Study by the Christian Medical Commission, WCC, Geneva 1990, p.6)

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To be healed means: „becoming participant in the "basilea healing movement“ (e.g. Mark 1, 29-31) (Expression: Elaine M. Wainwright, Women Healing/Healing Women, The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity, London 2006, p.111)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

I came to theory because I was hurting... Most importantly, I wanted to make the hurt go away. I saw in theory then a location for healing. (Bell Hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, New York  1994, p.59. Quotation found in: R.S. Sugirtharajah, Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism, History, Method, Practice, Wiley-Blackwell 2012, p. 7)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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