The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology (Wiley Blackwell Readings in Modern Theology)

Religion & Spirituality

PATTON, JOHN

Christian Books & Bibles

Wiley/Blackwell

Provides an overview of pastoral and practical theology in the form of articles and extracts with commentary. 
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<li>Presents pastoral and practical theology within a theoretical framework</li> <li>Contains classic readings together with newly commissioned articles</li> <li>Engages with practical theologies from both sides of the Atlantic</li> </ul>

The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology

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.

Pastoral Care in Context: An Introduction to Pastoral Care

Religious Studies

Westminster John Knox Pr

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.

Westminster/John Knox Press

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.

Pastoral Care: An Essential Guide

ABINGDON PRESS *

Christian Marriage And Family

Self-Help

Childs, Brian H.

Relationships

From Ministry To Theology

Forgiving those closest to us who have hurt us is one of the most difficult things Christians are called to do. For pastoral counselors the forgiveness issue creates a particularly serious dilemma, because it places counselors in the position of telling clients to do something their emotions vehemently fight against. Is Human Forgiveness Possible? offers an effective way out of this quandary by giving the forgiveness issue an entirely new focus. John Patton begins by scrapping our past understanding of forgiveness. Forgiveness is not something we do, he asserts; it's something we discover. To truly forgive someone, we must discover that "I am more like those who have hurt me than different from them. I am able to forgive when I discover that I am in no position to forgive." Patton presents case studies from his pastoral counseling practice that illustrate the difficulty of forgiving and actively demonstrate his new solution to the forgiveness problem. John Patton is executive director of the Georgia Association for Pastoral Care in Atlanta. He is the author of Pastoral Counseling: A Ministry of the Church (Abingdon Press).

Is Human Forgiveness Possible

Past Counseling A Minister Of The Church

Is Human Forgiveness Possible?

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Academic Renewal Press

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