Der Heilungsimpuls im Lukas-Evangelium / The Healing Spirit in the Gospel of Luke - Zweisprachige Ausgabe

Rudolf Steiner hat den Ärzten empfohlen, sich mit den Inhalten des Lukas-Evangeliums tiefer zu beschäftigen. Diesen Hinweis hat Dr. Georg Soldner aufgegriffen und fügte seinen Vortrag im Sinne einer pastoralmedizinischen Studie auf bewegende Weise dem Tagungsgeschehen ein. Er ist ein Zeugnis der inneren Verlebendigung der tiefen spirituell-geistigen Heilungsschilderungen aus dem Neuen Testament. Kein anderer Evangelist hat sich so tief den Heilungen kranker Menschen zugewendet wie Lukas.Etwa im monatlichen Rhythmus werden weitere Ausgaben der LOGOS-edition folgen. Wir hoffen, dass sie als Inspirationsquelle anregend für das zweite Jahrhundert der Christengemeinschaft weiterwirken. Am Ende des Buches finden Sie eine Übersicht über den Fortgang der Buchreihe.

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Rudolf Steiner hat den Ärzten empfohlen, sich mit den Inhalten des Lukas-Evangeliums tiefer zu beschäftigen. Diesen Hinweis hat Dr. Georg Soldner aufgegriffen und fügte seinen Vortrag im Sinne einer pastoralmedizinischen Studie auf bewegende Weise dem Tagungsgeschehen ein. Er ist ein Zeugnis der inneren Verlebendigung der tiefen spirituell-geistigen Heilungsschilderungen aus dem Neuen Testament. Kein anderer Evangelist hat sich so tief den Heilungen kranker Menschen zugewendet wie Lukas.Etwa im monatlichen Rhythmus werden weitere Ausgaben der LOGOS-edition folgen. Wir hoffen, dass sie als Inspirationsquelle anregend für das zweite Jahrhundert der Christengemeinschaft weiterwirken. Am Ende des Buches finden Sie eine Übersicht über den Fortgang der Buchreihe.

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The Gospel of the Holy SpiritIn Theology, the Gospel of Luke is also called The Gospel of the Holy Spirit. In no other Gospel does the Holy Spirit play such a significant role. It is also not so well known that the Gospel of Luke consists of two books; we call the second book the »Acts of the Apostles«.This is where we find the third great feast of Christianity, Pentecost, the feast of the Holy Spirit - the holy, but also the healing spirit. This little shift in perspective may change our whole idea of what Spirit is, for we tend to have a very intellectual relationship to what Spirit is, but our reflection here will lead us to see that the Holy Spirit is a spirit of action, of transformation, and of healing.I would like to pause for a moment at this point. I'm a doctor. Rudolf Steiner once described the physician as the »sickest creature of our times«. On the one hand, medicine is more powerful than ever in combating disease. In the United States in particular, a survey was recen tly carried out to find out how doctors are doing in this field. As many as 63% of physicians reported at least one symptom of burnout or were seriously considering leaving the profession due to exhaustion.In Germany, a medical nurse stays in the profession for around six to seven years and then leaves, which means we have an infinite number of trained nurses who are no longer active as such. Why? Because they find they are unable to live into and devote their inner forces to the patient within this system of modern medicine.Many feel increasingly pressured by the tightly woven net of rules and excessive documentation requirements, behind which there is an ever more obvious economic spirit. We can think of it as a spirit of time pressure, a spirit that cuts us off in a certain way from that which wants to allow us to connect with others, particularly those who are sick; it is like a corset tightening upon us, cramping our breathing space. Many have a longing for facilities where t his is not the case, and some turn, for example, to anthroposophical clinics, hoping to find something different.It is not the case, however, that anthroposophical institutions are free of these adversarial forces so prevalent today, which work against what is truly human.I myself co-founded our community practice in Munich 28 years ago, and even in a community practice you always have to deal with the devil. To counter this, we started reading the gospels twice a week right from the start, which has become a very important source of our work, as well as a source of self-awareness. We learn to ask ourselves where this adversarial spirit enters - that which blocks my vision, makes community difficult, or makes me numb to what the patient wants to tell me.I propose that it is not the absence of the evil spirit of our time that makes an institution Christian, but rather the ability of the people comprising that institution to recognize that spirit more consciously. Self-awareness is thus the condition for any healing community today.Along these lines, Rudolf Steiner gives the advice to work deeply with the Gospel of Luke in order to get closer to what our own innermost motive can become when encountering the sick person. The relationship with the patient is always a form of community building, even if modern medicine likes to keep its distance, as we also experienced during the Covid pandemic. At its core, however, the art of healing is about what touches us, and thus also about touching the other person.