Christine Gruwez – författare

The three apostles Peter, Paul and John are the most important starting point for understanding the beginnings of Christianity. Each brings a different background and language: Peter's Old Testament imagery, Paul's connection with Greek culture, and John's independent lyricism.This fascinating book paints a vivid picture of the three, exploring what they had in common as well as their significant differences, and demonstrating their continuing relevance today. The authors start by discussing the pre-Christian context, and finish by tracing the esoteric streams of Petrine, Pauline and Johannine Christianity in the first few centuries after Christ. They show above all that all three are needed to truly approach the reality of Jesus Christ.

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.