The Social Context Of Pastoral Care

Author : George M. Furniss
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664254365

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The Social Context of Pastoral Care by George M. Furniss Pdf

Because their work focuses primarily on the fields of theology and psychology, pastoral caregivers have often neglected to take into account the social forces that affect both the careseeker and the caregiver. In this groundbreaking book, sociologist and chaplain George Furniss introduces them to a third discipline, sociology, to draw upon in their work. Furniss offers an introduction to sociological approaches that are particularly relevant to those in the field. Brief biographical notes about key figures in sociology and a glossary of terms are supplied to assist those who lack extensive background in sociology.

Author : Gordon Lynch
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0761970975

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Pastoral Care & Counselling by Gordon Lynch Pdf

Pastoral Care and Counselling provides an accessible framework for understanding the role of the pastoral care worker and the ethical dimensions of practice. In offering spiritual support and in helping others resolve their moral dilemmas, pastoral carers need to explore their own vision of humanity and what for them constitutes "the good life."

Author : Tapiwa N. Mucherera
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498283434

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Counseling and Pastoral Care in African and Other Cross-Cultural Contexts by Tapiwa N. Mucherera Pdf

The coming of Colonization and Christianity to Africa and other indigenous cross-cultural contexts was a “mixed bag” of pros and cons. The impact of the advent of the two has had a lasting effect being felt even today. It created issues of bi-culturalism and bi-religiousness in personal and religious identities that counselors and the church need to address when working with people from these contexts. There is the existence of deep cultural trauma (including psychological and spiritual scars) needing healing for those living in most of these post-colonial contexts. The Western counseling approaches and Christian rituals need contextualization. A counselor or pastoral caregiver with an integrative consciousness is required to address the psychological and religious identity conflicts existing in African and other indigenous cross-cultural contexts.

Author : Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook,Karen Brown Montagno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015078793315

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Injustice and the Care of Souls by Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook,Karen Brown Montagno Pdf

Pastoral care is often focused on individual problems, but much of what harms and impedes us stems from the larger social maladies at work in our lives. This unprecedented gathering of two dozen essays discusses the realities of racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, and classism prevalent within the church and society in an effort to broaden and inform pastoral caregivers with the knowledge and the skills needed to respond effectively to oppressed and marginalized persons. The volumes also help pastors to reflect on the ways their own social location has an impact on their ministries and to gain familiarity with resources available to support pastoral caregivers in a variety of contexts.

Author : John Patton
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664229948

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Pastoral Care in Context by John Patton Pdf

An expert in the field of pastoral care, John Patton demonstrates that pastoral care is a ministry of the church. He focuses on the community of faith as an authorizer and source of care and upon the relationship between the pastor and a caring community. Patton identifies and compares three paradigms of pastoral care: the classical, the clinical pastoral, and the communal contextual. This third paradigm emphasizes the caring community and the various contexts for care rather than focusing on pastoral care as the work of the ordained pastor.

Author : Don S. Browning
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015006704426

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The Moral Context of Pastoral Care by Don S. Browning Pdf

Author : John Swinton,David Willows
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781846422188

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Spiritual Dimensions of Pastoral Care by John Swinton,David Willows Pdf

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.

Author : William M Clements,Howard W Stone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136372919

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Theological Context for Pastoral Caregiving by William M Clements,Howard W Stone Pdf

In Theological Context for Pastoral Caregiving, Howard W. Stone helps his fellow pastors and worship leaders provide effective and faithful pastoral care and counseling through the study of the correlation between pastoral care and theology. You will learn that in order for pastoral care to be effective it must have a theological base to shape the caregiving experience. At the same time, theology must be informed by the needs and experiences of the people being served and by the ministry of pastoral care. By relating these two issues, you gain a unique viewpoint not offered by books with simply a psychological focus.The author draws from his day-to-day clinical practice of pastoral care and counseling to show how pastoral care and theology can be brought together. Through Howard Stone’s work, the reader learns of: an overview of pastoral care and counseling today how to provide a pastoral assessment of the persons served the author’s theological understanding of the ministry of pastoral care and counseling methods for correlating theology and pastoral care how spiritual direction as a discipline can help pastoral care and counseling ministry regain a solid theological base theological themes that might be more explicitly and intentionally related to pastoral careTheological Context for Pastoral Caregiving provides useful information for parish pastors, people in training to be parish pastors, and specialists in the field of pastoral care counseling. As one of the easiest-to-read books on this subject, it can also be used as a text for graduate-level classes in courses such as Theology and Pastoral Care, Pastoral Theology, and Practical Theology. With this book, seminary students will finally be able to relate the practical things learned in pastoral counseling classes with what is learned in theology classes.

Author : Albert A. Herzog Jr.
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532607714

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The Social Contexts of Disability Ministry by Albert A. Herzog Jr. Pdf

This book provides pastors, seminarians, and interested laity with the background necessary to understand the need for disability ministry and the contexts out of which the church's ministry among people with disabilities must emerge. This is true not only for descriptions of ministries over the past sixty years, but also the challenges disability poses for biblical studies, church history, Christian theology, and ethics. Insights are gained not only from mainstream secular and religious sources but from evangelical and other conservative materials. The blending of items from different religious resources reveals just how ubiquitous disability is and the need for disability ministry--now and for many years into the future. The book's format is such that either it can serve as a text for courses on disability ministry, or individual chapters can be employed in various courses on selected topics in biblical studies, history, theology, and ethics. Pastors and lay leaders will enjoy the depth of coverage for each topic. This is a book about a serious subject, for serious readers. Its materials are designed to inform, stimulate, and promote disability ministry as a topic worthy of serious study.

Author : Donald Capps
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451416237

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Living Stories by Donald Capps Pdf

In Living Stories Donald Capps makes a forceful case for the importance of pastoral counseling in the life of a congregation. Arguing convincingly for a "paradigmatic revolution," Capps offers a radically new model that gives systematic and constructive attention to the way people actually "story" their lives - inspirationally, paradoxically, or miraculously. Through such engagement, pastors can help people discover their own stories, discern the shape and direction of those stories, and move constructively to find new understandings or more hopeful possibilities in their life situations.

Author : Bernadette Flanagan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441139191

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The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care by Bernadette Flanagan Pdf

The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care provides a framework for reflection on pastoral care practice and identifies frontier learning from the new and challenging practical contexts which are important in pastoral care research today. In this collection of essays from leading practitioner-scholars, Bernadette Flanagan and Sharon Thornton set out core principles underpinning professional identity and the practice of pastoral care in rapidly changing social settings. Such pastoral challenges as, developing compassionate and effective companioning to those who have suffered trauma, torture, catastrophic events, social disintegration, the moral wounds of war and cultural dislocation are treated with insight and deep care. The new frontiers of pastoral care in more familiar circumstances such as family, health settings where patients facing life-challenging medical events and multi-cultural communities are also explored. With contributions from Kevin Egan, Michael O'Sullivan SJ, Rita Nakashima Brock and Julia Prinz VDMF, The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care is an essential reference for the theory and practice of pastoral care.

Author : Glenn H. Asquith
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426702310

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The Concise Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling by Glenn H. Asquith Pdf

Surveys the essentials of pastoral care and counseling

Author : Lyall, David
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780335191628

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Counselling In The Pastoral And Spiritual Context by Lyall, David Pdf

This book explores the practice of counselling not only in the context of traditional ministries of pastoral care within the Christian Church but also in the context of other world religions and among counsellors with a concern for the spiritual dimension of life. A detailed account is given of the development of pastoral counselling in Britain; parallel movements in other major world religions are examined. An attempt is made to engage sympathetically with the theory and practice of a wide range of approaches to counselling in a context which embraces both the rapidly growing Christian counselling movement and more humanistic understandings of spirituality. The author draws out the implications of metaphors which have shaped our understanding of pastoral care and counselling, finding in a narrative understanding of religious faith and in the spiritual journey of Thomas Merton, a model which respects the contribution of the secular therapies and affirms the integrating potential of faith. This book will be of interest to clergy and lay people in churches and other faiths who seek an understanding of counselling in pastoral and spiritual contexts. It will also have more general appeal to practitioners who wish to explore the relationship of counselling in this context to forms of counselling elsewhere.

Author : Browning Don S.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1245547028

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Moral Context of Pastoral Care by Browning Don S. Pdf

Author : Stephen Pattison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521418224

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Pastoral Care and Liberation Theology by Stephen Pattison Pdf

This is the first book to show how Latin American liberation theology can be applied to and can transform pastoral care in countries such as Britain and the USA. Hitherto pastoral care has tended to concentrate on looking after individuals. Stephen Pattison suggests that much of the suffering endured by individuals is actually socially and politically caused, and so is avoidable if the appropriate action is taken. The author argues that what we now require is a socio-politically aware and committed pastoral care which makes an option for oppressed and poor people and engages in practical struggle against the forces of injustice and oppression. Focussing as it does especially on mentally ill people and on women, the book will be of interest to all those who want to broaden their vision and knowledge of liberation theology or pastoral care, whether theologians, pastors, students for ministry, members of caring professions, or users of the services they provide.