Robert C. Dykstra

Finding Ourselves Lost

Ministry in the Age of Overwhelm

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This book wrestles with quandaries of pastoral ministry in what psychotherapist Mary Pipher calls the age of overwhelm. Drawing especially from the wisdom of Jesus' own teaching and healing ministries as portrayed in the Gospel of Luke, it offers an intimate narrative introduction to pastoral theology for guiding bewildering tasks of pastoral care and counseling. These essays encourage seminarians and ministers to embrace their role as agents of healing by exploring their own debilitating shame and daring to speak what in childhood could not be spoken; by revealing their discoveries to a trusted confidant so as to feel less loathsome or lonel… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5326-3482-6
EAN: 9781532634826
Produktnummer: 30236258
Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 178 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 7'004 KB

Über den Autor

Robert C. Dykstra is Charlotte W. Newcombe Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of Counseling Troubled Youth (1997), Discovering a Sermon (2001), and Images of Pastoral Care (2005), and he is coauthor with Allan Hugh Cole Jr. and Donald Capps of Losers, Loners, and Rebels (2007).