Theological Context for Pastoral Caregiving

ISBN: 9780789001252

出版年: 1996-9

页数: 174

定价: $ 57.07

内容简介

Theological Context for Pastoral Caregiving offers readers a theological context for the care they give to others. While granting the value of secular knowledge and techniques in the field of counseling, author Howard Stone views the work of pastoral care and counseling as a unique calling that is based on the Christian view of persons. His purpose is to provide neither a thorough elaboration of pastoral care nor a detailed exposition of theology but, rather, a meeting of the two. In chapters on the distinctiveness of pastoral care, the correlation of theology and ministry, spiritual direction, theological assessment, love of God and neighbor, pastoral care as community endeavor, suffering, and more, Stone blends concrete help with theological guidance so that pastors and other Christian leaders can do authentic pastoral care and counseling - not just "psychotherapy with a twist."