The heart is too much a mystery for us to approach its healing as a
simple matter of finding and fixing the problem. Methods alone cannot
meet the deep, aching need of souls that cry not for solutions, but for
connection. 'The Beautiful Risk' encourages us to trade cure for care,
expertise for partnership, and mastery for love. With
perspective-shifting insights and examples, Dr. James Olthuis helps us
-- both counselors and those who come for counsel -- to move beyond
control and technique and join in a risky but glorious dance of
relationship, love, and healing. James Olthuis gives us a new covenant
of care that is long overdue. Whether you are a professional counselor
or a seeker of healing, you will find richness in this book that is sure
to guide you on your quest for an authentic life. Drs. Les and Leslie
Parrott authors of 'When Bad Things Happen to Good Marriages' I have
thoroughly appreciated 'The Beautiful Risk'. It is an excellent book for
anyone recovering from inner wounds. It explains that healing occurs
through loving relationships that involve care, compassion, and
connection rather than fixing, cure, and control. This is a risk well
worth taking! Dr. Arlys Norcross McDonald Clinical Psychologist
(specializing in healing from trauma) and author of 'Repressed Memories:
Can You Trust Them?' James H. Olthuis is Professor of Philosophical
Theology Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. His
publications include I Pledge You My Troth (1975) and Keeping the Troth
(1986). He is also co-editor of Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed
Tradition (2005), and editor of Religion With/out Religion (2002),
Toward an Ethics of Community (2000), and Knowing Otherwise: Philosophy
at the Threshold of Spirituality (1997). Jim is a grandfather who
rollerblades to work.
