Images of Pastoral Care

Images of Pastoral Care
Title Images of Pastoral Care PDF eBook
Author Robert C Dykstra
Publisher Chalice Press
Pages 262
Release 2005-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 0827216262

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This book is an edited volume of works that have predominated over the past several decades in contemporary pastoral theology. Through the writings of nineteen leading voices in the history of pastoral care, Dykstra shows how each contributor developed a metaphor for understanding pastoral care. Such metaphors include the solicitous shepherd, the wounded healer, the intimate stranger, the midwife, and other tangible images. Through these works, the reader gains a sense of the varied identities of pastoral care professionals, their struggles for recognition in this often controversial field, and insight into the history of the disciple. Includes readings by: Anton T. Boisen, Alastair V. Campbell, Donald Capps, James E. Dittes, Robert C. Dykstra, Heije Faber, Charles V. Gerkin, Brita L. Gill-Austern, Karen R. Hanson, Seward Hiltner, Margaret Zipse Kornfeld, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Jeanne Stevenson Moessner, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Gaylord Noyce, Paul W. Pruyser, Edward P. Wimberly.

Postcolonial Images of Spiritual Care

Postcolonial Images of Spiritual Care
Title Postcolonial Images of Spiritual Care PDF eBook
Author Emmanuel Y. Lartey
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 238
Release 2020-09-23
Genre Religion
ISBN 1532685556

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This anthology is about caring for all persons as a part of the revolutionary struggle against colonialism in its many forms. In recognition of the varied ways in which different forms of oppression, injustice, and violence in the world today are traceable to the legacy and continuing effects of colonialism, various authors have contributed to the volume from diverse backgrounds including differing ethnic identities, religious and cultural traditions, gender and sexual orientations, as well as communal and personal realities. As a postcolonial critique of spiritual care, it highlights the plurality of voices and concerns that have been overlooked or obscured because of the politics of race, religion, sexuality, nationalism, and other structures of power that have shaped what discursive spiritual care entails today. Postcolonial Images of Spiritual Care presents voices of practical and pastoral theologians, academics, spiritual care providers, religious leaders, students, and activists working to provide greater intercultural spiritual care and awareness in the areas of healthcare, community work, and education. The volume, as such, expands the discourse of spiritual care and participates in the ongoing paradigm shifts in the field of pastoral and practical theology.

Pastoral Care

Pastoral Care
Title Pastoral Care PDF eBook
Author Dr. John Patton
Publisher Abingdon Press
Pages 171
Release 2010-09-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1426723474

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The essentials of pastoral care involve the pastor's distinctive task of caring for those who are estranged--the lost sheep. Taken from the biblical image of the shepherd, the pastor by virtue of his or her professional calling cultivates wise judgment in order to hear the hurting and offer guidance, reconciliation, healing, sustaining presence, and empowerment to those in need. This book will outline the quintessential elements pastors need to wisely minister in today's context by discussing four major kinds of lostness: grief, illness, abuse, and family challenges. The purpose of the Abingdon Essential Guides is to fulfill the need for brief, substantive, yet highly accessible introductions to the core disciples in biblical, theological, and religious studies. Drawing on the best in current scholarship, written with the need of students foremost in mind, addressed to learners in a number of contexts, Essential Guides will be the first choice of those who wish to acquaint themselves or their students with the broad scope of issues, perspectives, and subject matters within biblical and religious studies.

Spiritual Dimensions of Pastoral Care

Spiritual Dimensions of Pastoral Care
Title Spiritual Dimensions of Pastoral Care PDF eBook
Author John Swinton
Publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages 224
Release 2001-10-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1846422183

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Written by significant researchers and practitioners within the field, this unique collection of key texts introduces the reader to practical theology. It critically explores the way in which the spiritual dimension of pastoral care has entered into constructive dialogue with other disciplines and ways of thinking, including: psychiatry, psychology, counselling, intercultural studies, educational methodology, narrative theory and political studies. Set within this multidisciplinary context, the individual contributions (a selection of articles from a leading journal of pastoral theology, Contact: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Pastoral Studies) cover a wide range of practical and theological issues that alert the reader to the spiritual dimension of pastoral care, such as bereavement, sexuality, ethics, learning disabilities, infertility, the meaning of pain, sickness and suffering and the nature of theology as a practical discipline. The book is an invaluable resource for practitioners, researchers, students and all who have an interest in the ways in which a spiritual dimension can enhance caring practices within a multidisciplinary context.

The Ministry of the Church

The Ministry of the Church
Title The Ministry of the Church PDF eBook
Author Joseph J. Allen
Publisher St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Pages 0
Release 1986
Genre Pastoral theology
ISBN 9780881410440

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A three-part study of the functions of ministry from an Orthodox perspective.

Ritual and Pastoral Care

Ritual and Pastoral Care
Title Ritual and Pastoral Care PDF eBook
Author Elaine Ramshaw
Publisher Fortress Press
Pages 124
Release 1987-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9781451407518

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Ritual can resonate to human need, and to this end there is much the ritualist can learn from the psychological insights into human development and personality familiar to those in the field of pastoral care.

Reframing

Reframing
Title Reframing PDF eBook
Author Donald Capps
Publisher Fortress Press
Pages 212
Release 1990-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9781451416244

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"I have read Professor Capp's Reframing with great interest. Since my colleagues and I have long thought of our concepts and practices as broad and general?as potentially applicable beyond our clinical sphere of psychotherapy?it is very satisfying to see this solid and skillful extension of our work into the very wide and important field of pastoral care."? John H. Weakland, Brief Therapy Center Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California