Healing the Sacred Divide: Making Peace with Ourselves, Each Other, and the World by Jean Benedict Raffa

Jean Benedict Raffa examines how inherited images of God can shape emotional conflict, relationships and the way people respond to difference. She considers eight common patterns of religious thinking before developing her idea of a more integrated God-image.

The discussion brings masculine and feminine symbolism into questions of belief, individuality, feeling and reason. Healing the Sacred Divide offers a psychological and spiritual inquiry into divisiveness, inviting reflection rather than requiring readers to adopt a particular religious doctrine.