Architectures Of Grace In Pastoral Care

Author : Douglas B. Olds
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666766974

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An updating of virtue ethics for modern pastors and the souls they care for, this book proposes innovations for the craft of ministry in the theology of grace—how virtues radiate to tame strife and other destructive behaviors. It presents a comprehensive alternative to the top-down proclamations of “biblical counseling” approaches that try to impart, from an eclectic biblicist lens, cognitive authorities for consequential change. Instead, Christ’s bottom-up practice of virtues heals and fulfills by focusing on neighbor first and subordinating the ego’s strategic considerations—more graciously spreading God’s will in ministry through participatory and experiential knowledge. Virtuous pastoral ministries integrate the common grace of humanist learning to address the range of the care seeker’s contemporary context—her upbringing, struggles, and affiliations. This book presents more the “how” than the “what” of pastoral theology: more how the dance of mutuality and chivalry enters the spiritual flow of healing metaphysical grace than the “what” of right “belief.” Even so, pastoral care from the virtue ethical approach inevitably reconsiders “vending machine” theologies, destructive doctrinal boundaries, and context-lite biblicisms. This presentation introduces how virtue ethics apply to ministry, the household, individual trauma and addictions, and the contemporary political and cultural arena.

Author : Douglas B. Olds
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666766998

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Architectures of Grace in Pastoral Care by Douglas B. Olds Pdf

An updating of virtue ethics for modern pastors and the souls they care for, this book proposes innovations for the craft of ministry in the theology of grace--how virtues radiate to tame strife and other destructive behaviors. It presents a comprehensive alternative to the top-down proclamations of "biblical counseling" approaches that try to impart, from an eclectic biblicist lens, cognitive authorities for consequential change. Instead, Christ's bottom-up practice of virtues heals and fulfills by focusing on neighbor first and subordinating the ego's strategic considerations--more graciously spreading God's will in ministry through participatory and experiential knowledge. Virtuous pastoral ministries integrate the common grace of humanist learning to address the range of the care seeker's contemporary context--her upbringing, struggles, and affiliations. This book presents more the "how" than the "what" of pastoral theology: more how the dance of mutuality and chivalry enters the spiritual flow of healing metaphysical grace than the "what" of right "belief." Even so, pastoral care from the virtue ethical approach inevitably reconsiders "vending machine" theologies, destructive doctrinal boundaries, and context-lite biblicisms. This presentation introduces how virtue ethics apply to ministry, the household, individual trauma and addictions, and the contemporary political and cultural arena.

Author : Ralph L. Underwood
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451416466

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Pastoral Care and the Means of Grace by Ralph L. Underwood Pdf

The emphasis on pastoral freedom is nearly spent?and found wanting. Many caregivers today are seeking to balance such freedom with a sense of God's transcendence and communal order, which entail personal and ritual formation.In Underwood's resulting spirituality, the soul of pastoral care is prayer. The substance is Scripture, studied in both liturgical and personal settings. The evangelical principle is reconciliation. Baptism lays the foundation for pastoral care by providing the paradigm for all transformations. Eucharist constitutes the eschatological horizon for pastoral care as ministry in the human encounter of God's presence.This winsomely written book stands at the forefront of a broad movement among scholars and clergy in nonliturgical traditions that aims at retrieving explicitly religious resources?the means of grace. The result is a rare, truly ecumenical contribution to pastoral care, which deepens practice by providing a vision and a spirituality.

Author : Lee Eclov
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802479457

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Pastoral Graces by Lee Eclov Pdf

Grace is the credential that lets us park close to people's hearts.When Christ calls a pastor He instills a kind of heightened instinct for grace; what we call a shepherd's heart. However, pastors often become disoriented by leadership demands, congregational expectation, and the wounds of ministry. They forget how to use the grace of Christ in the everyday work of pastoring. Through striking word pictures and stories that resonate with every pastor, this book will reinvigorate pastors' instincts for practicing grace in the churches they shepherd. Whether you are training to be a pastor and wondering if you are called, a seasoned shepherd needing encouragement and affirmation, or simply someone who wants to encourage your pastor, you will appreciate the sage wisdom and confirmation poured out in the pages of Pastoral Graces.

Author : Constance M. Cherry
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493404575

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The Music Architect by Constance M. Cherry Pdf

Guidance for Leaders Seeking a Richer Way to Employ Worship Music Worship expert Constance Cherry offers comprehensive guidance to Christian leaders seeking a deeper, richer way to employ worship music in engaging ways for twenty-first-century worshipers. Following Cherry's successful book The Worship Architect, this work helps Christian leaders think theologically and act pastorally about worship music in their churches. It addresses larger issues beyond the surface struggles of musical styles and provides tools to critically evaluate worship songs. The book is applicable to all Christian traditions and worship styles and is well suited to both the classroom and the local church. Each chapter concludes with suggested practical exercises, recommended reading, and basic vocabulary terms.

Author : Tilda Norberg,Gestalt Pastoral Care
Publisher : Gestalt Pastoral Care
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0965870715

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Consenting to Grace by Tilda Norberg,Gestalt Pastoral Care Pdf

Set in the context of the author's own healing journey, this resource integrates healing prayer, spiritual companioning, and insights from Gestalt psychotherapy in the faith that God is already at work in each of these arenas to bring healing.

Author : Denis Robert McNamara
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781595250278

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Catholic Church Architecture and the Spirit of the Liturgy by Denis Robert McNamara Pdf

Author : Carroll A. Wise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Church group work
ISBN : UOM:39015011643478

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The Meaning of Pastoral Care by Carroll A. Wise Pdf

The author contends that the focus of pastoral care should be on helping people become themselves (what God intended them to become) through a deep and personal relationship between pastor and person, rather than by doling out theological or ethical formulas for particular problems. Pastoral care should denote the relationship of the pastor to his people in all activities -- not merely in dealing with persons in crises.

Author : Constance M. Cherry
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441242877

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The Special Service Worship Architect by Constance M. Cherry Pdf

This book takes the principles found in Constance Cherry's successful The Worship Architect--in which she provided dynamic blueprints for designing worship services--and applies them to special services in the life of the church. Cherry, a worship professor and practitioner, offers theological reflection, practical guidance, and suggested resources to help worship leaders and ministry students in training to create meaningful special services related to the sacraments, life passages, and other occasions. Cherry sets forth a process concerning worship design for special services and demonstrates how this process is conducive to virtually any style of worship practiced today in a myriad of Christian communities. She includes a model order for each service type, including weddings, funerals, baptisms, child dedications, Holy Communion, and more. The book not only explains what leaders do in order to preside at special services and how to do it, but also why they make certain choices. Each chapter includes discussion questions, practical exercises, and a basic glossary.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848881396

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Spirituality: New Reflections on Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy by Anonim Pdf

The contemporary study of spirituality encompasses a wide range of interests, often founded on inter- and multidisciplinary approaches.

Author : Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451410832

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A Primer in Pastoral Care by Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner Pdf

Based on her twenty years of teaching and on her own experience in pastoral care, Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner has written a basic pastoral-care text to assist in the emotional and spiritual preparation of pastoral caregivers. Stevenson-Moessner expands on her key notion of pastoral care as seen through the interconnection and interplay of love of God, love of neighbor, and love of self. Her brief book is meant to engender "confidence and caring" in the initiate, and to assuage the fear and anxiety that naturally occur when one accompanies people in life-changing pain and travail. Through skilled use of the parables of the Good Samaritan and the Good Shepherd, along with stories from her own experience, Stevenson-Moessner imparts genuine wisdom and meaningful support to those who courageously dare to offer caregiving ministry in whatever situation or through whatever method or paradigm. Her work unfolds in six chapters: 1. Introduction: The One-Room Schoolhouse 2. Pointers and Precepts: The Grammar of Care 3. The Prism of Pastoral Care: Scripture Refracted 4. Paradigms in Pastoral Care: The Community as Classroom 5. The Open Classroom: Places of Care 6. Conclusion: An Alphabet of Grace

Author : Mark Meynell
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783596515

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When Darkness Seems My Closest Friend by Mark Meynell Pdf

‘I’m looking for the words and writing for those who can’t imagine the words.’ Mark Meynell articulates a heart pain that most of us simply couldn’t express. He connects strongly and immediately with fellow cave dwellers. We relive significant moments from boarding school, Uganda, Berlin and London. We visit the Psalms, Job and The Pilgrim's Progress. If you're after neat conclusions and a fair-weather faith, this is not for you. This book serves up gritty reality and raw honesty, but also the heartfelt hope that the author's brokenness 'can somehow contribute to another person's integration' and 'inspire their clinging while beset by darkness or fog or blizzards'. Contents 1 The mask 2 The volcano 3 The cave 4 The weight 5 The invisibility cloak 6 The closing 7 The way 8 The fellow-traveller 9 The gift Appendix 1 Managing the symptoms Appendix 2 Unexpected friends in the cave Appendix 3 Some words from inside the cave

Author : Rodger Woodworth
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666779028

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The Architecture of Truth by Rodger Woodworth Pdf

Today we are battered with a never-ending barrage of competing truths. Social media overwhelms us with topics on how to live our best lives but eventually we discover just how conflicting these truths really are. With this constant stream of incompatible assertions, it is difficult to find footing in the architecture of truth. It almost seems that objective truth has been put on trial. Untruths are being promoted by politicians’ quest for power and populism’s drive for attention. The idea that there are many different truths seems appropriate for today’s pluralistic world but when we can define our own truth, truth is derived from the one with the loudest voice. The apostle Paul addresses these issues in his letter to Titus, exhorting him to “teach them to know the truth” because false teachers were “turning whole families away from the truth . . . and they do it only for money.” In his effort to refute error and unmask falsehood, Paul gives one of the most condensed and yet comprehensive summaries of the gospel in Titus 3:1–8. In this passage the apostle constructs the architecture of truth that teaches us to live a life different than the world of untruths around us.

Author : Timothy Seigler
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639853588

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Sir Ellis Clarke by Timothy Seigler Pdf

Dr. Seigler has done a highly commendable job in producing a detailed biography on the life of Sir Ellis Clarke. His work, Sir Ellis Clarke: A Royal Son of the Soil is insightful, thought-provoking, and written in a reader-friendly style." Dr. Lawrence Rossow, Former Dean, University of Houston-Victoria. "Sir Ellis Clarke: A Royal Son of the Soil is an eloquent biography that introduces Americans to the life of Sir Ellis Clarke, a modern-day Founding Father of Trinidad and Tobago. Readers in the United States and around the world will be the likely beneficiaries of Dr. Seigler's insight into how Sir Ellis' struggle to devise a workable constitution for his own nation, might illuminate the constitutional jurisprudence of the United States." Dr. Harvey Hinton, Former Assistant professor of Social Studies at North Carolina Central University

Author : Mohammad Gharipour
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350217393

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Health and Architecture by Mohammad Gharipour Pdf

Health and Architecture offers a uniquely global overview of the healthcare facility in the pre-modern era, engaging in a cross-cultural analysis of the architectural response to medical developments and the formation of specialized hospitals as an independent building typology. Whether constructed as part of Chinese palaces in the 15th century or the religious complexes in 16th century Ottoman Istanbul, the healthcare facility throughout history is a built environment intended to promote healing and caring. The essays in this volume address how the relationships between architectural forms associated with healthcare and other buildings in the pre-modern era, such as bathhouses, almshouses, schools and places of worship, reflect changing attitudes towards healing. They explore the impact of medical advances on the design of hospitals across various times and geographies, and examine the historic construction processes and the stylistic connections between places of care and other building types, and their development in urban context. Deploying new methodological, interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to the analysis of healthcare facilities, Health and Architecture demonstrates how the spaces of healthcare themselves offer some of the most powerful and practical articulations of therapy.