Braided Selves: Collected Essays on Multiplicity, God, and Persons
Ebook
Overview
What if we are more multiple as persons than traditional psychology has taught us to believe? And what if our multiplicity is a part of how we are made in the very image of a loving, relational, multiple God? How have modern, Western notions of Oneness caused harm--to both individuals and society? And how can an appreciation of our multiplicity help liberate the voices of those who live at the margins, both of society and within our own complex selves? Braided Selves explores these questions from the perspectives of postmodern pastoral psychology and Trinitarian theology, with implications for the practice of spiritual care, counseling, and psychotherapy. This volume gathers ten years of essays on this theme by preeminent pastoral theologian Pamela Cooper-White, whose writings bring into dialogue postmodern, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory and constructive theology.
”The polyvalent beauty of the titular metaphor weaves right
through this powerful new contribution to relational theology--in
its most currently postmodern theory and practice. Managing to
remain breathtakingly readable, this text offers its manifold gifts
to the whole range of theological disciplines. Braid this book into
your lives, your ministries, your studies, your selves!"
--Catherine Keller
Professor of Constructive Theology
Drew Theological School
“Braided Selves is a remarkable collection of richly nuanced,
provocative, debatable, generative, and above all, truly important
essays at the intersection of psychoanalytic theory, theological
anthropology, constructive theology, and pastoral theology by one
who may now be the most profound and searching pastoral theologian
of our time. Pamela Cooper-White writes in a fluid, interesting,
and highly readable style, while probing the depths of some of the
most important issues in contemporary, postmodern theological
anthropology and clinical and pastoral practice. This book cannot
be too highly recommended."
--Rodney J. Hunter
Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Theology
Candler School of Theology, Emory University
"Braided Selves is what authentic theology could be in the
twenty-first century: theoretically rich without fleeing into
metaphysical and rhetorical abstractions; rooted in human
experience without degenerating into sentimentality and cliche.
Anyone who cares about religious reflection in this troubled time
should read this book. It will be a loss if Dr. Cooper-White’s text
is in any way restricted only to those who have ‘pastoral’ in their
job description."
--James W. Jones
Professor of Psychology of Religion
Rutgers University
Product Details
- Title : Braided Selves: Collected Essays on Multiplicity, God, and Persons
- Author: Cooper-White, Pamela
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Publication Date: 2011
- ISBN: 9781621890171