Integrity of Pastoral Care
Integrity of Pastoral Care
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Paperback / softback
£14.99
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
ISBN: 9780281050260
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 22/06/2001
Width: 13.5 cm
Height: 21.5 cm
What is distinctively Christian about the pastoral care the Churches offer, and what is the place of care and counselling within the broader context of the work of the Church?
This study of pastoral care as the normative pastoral ministry gives a context and perspective to the recent explosion of pastoral counselling. While pastoral care can draw upon the insights of the secular therapies, it is not an inferior form of pastoral counselling. Pastoral care has its own integrity rooted in the life and worship of that community of faith shaped by the story of Jesus Christ. The theological importance of pastoral care is thus made central.
This book offers an important manifesto for parish ministry, and the need to hold in balance the practical and the theological. Drawing upon a wide range of case material, David Lyall sets out a theology and practice of pastoral care, affirming the importance of Christian narrative amid the realities of postmodern society.
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction ix
1 Counselling, Pastoral Counselling, 1
Pastoral Care and Ministry
The Eclipse of the Ordained Ministry? 1
The Coming of the Counsellors 3
The Nature and Scope of Pastoral Care 6
The Pastoral Paradigm 11
Pastoral Counselling as One Form of Pastoral Care 13
The Integrity of Pastoral Care 18
2 Theology and Pastoral Practice 22
The Case of the Inarticulate Ordinand 22
Definitions 23
Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Roots of
Practical Theology 24
Pastoral Care as Applied Theology 25
Pastoral Care as Applied Psychology 29
Rediscovering Practical Theology 33
Liberation Theology and Pastoral Care 38
3 Understanding Stories 44
Pastoral Care as Hermeneutics 49
4 The Challenge of Postmodernism 63
Postmodern Society as the Context of
Contemporary Ministry 64
Postmodernism, Biblical Truth and
'The Eclipse of Metanarrative' 78
A Defence of Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age 79
The Postmodern-Biblical-Pastoral Theology of
Walter Brueggemann 82
5 Biblical Narrative and Pastoral Care 89
Perspectives from the Hebrew Bible 90
New Testament Themes 93
6 Faith Development and Pastoral Ministry 108
Faith Development Theory and Ministry 108
Fowler's Stages of Faith 109
Stages of Faith and Cultural Consciousness 111
Pastoral Ministry and Stages of Faith 115
Ministry and Postmodernity: Three Case Studies 117
Models of Ministry 124
7 Pastoral Ministry Today 131
Pastoral Care and the Postmodern Family 132
When a Baby is Born Dead 136
A Presbyterian Response to the Request for
'Last Rites' 140
The School Chaplain as Community Minister 143
Supporting the Psychiatric Patient 147
The Context of Care 153
Incarnation and Agape 154
Suffering, Death, Resurrection and Hope 158
Role and Identity 159
Church, Ministry and Pluralism 162
8 Pastoral Care as Reflective Practice 164
The Context of Ordained Ministry 164
A Profile of Ordained Ministry 167
Collaborative Ministry as the Context of
Reflective Practice 168
The Reflective Practitioner 170
Pastoral Care as Reflective Practice 172
Reflective Practice and Life-long Learning 177
Towards a Reflective Pastoral Practice for
Postmodern Times 178
Reflective Practice and Pastoral Integrity 179
Bibliography 182
Index 188
