Theological Context for Pastoral Caregiving: Word in Deed - Softcover

Clements, William M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 078900125X ISBN 13: 9780789001252

Publisher: Haworth Pastoral Press, 1996

Synopsis

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 care
  
  Theological 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.

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Review:

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, the Reverend 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". Theological Context For Pastoral Caregiving is exceptionally well written, and highly recommended for seminary, church school, and pastoral counseling collections. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Haworth Pastoral Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 078900125X
• ISBN 13: 9780789001252
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186