Korean Resources for Pastoral Theology: Dance of Han, Jeong, and Salim
Ebook
Overview
In a time of life-and-death challenges to the human spirit--global economics, nuclear dangers, environmental threats, and religious polarization and war--Christians must look for resources that provide new insights of God’s power and care for all people. What are the forms of suffering and hope in the world today, and how can Christians respond with healing resources? Korean Christians have unique contributions to make to our understanding of pastoral theology and counseling. Pastoral counselors and theologians from the United States should look to the South Korean Christian churches and other Asian churches for conversation partners about the nature of care and healing in today’s world. In this book, the authors explore important ideas--such as han, jeong, and salim--from Korean history and culture that can inform the healing ministries of the churches.
"Korean Resources for Pastoral Theology makes a
significant contribution to the field of pastoral care and pastoral
theology in the United States . . . The authors introduce Koreans
who are actively searching for God’s spirit at work in healing,
liberation, and reconciliation . . . It is like seeing a newly
created world of God, in which all diversities dance
together."
--Heesung Chung, Professor of Pastoral Counseling, Ewha Womans
University
"This book is full of insightful and enthralling information about
Korean cultural values . . . Poling and Kim present invaluable
tools for pastoral counselors, Christian leaders, and theologians
to enrich the horizons of pastoral theology and counseling at the
global level."
--Andrew S. Park, Professor of Theology and Ethics, United
Theological Seminary
"Korean Resources for Pastoral Theology is an excellent
resource for those interested in finding the way back to practices
of spirituality of care that foster sustainability,
interdependency, justice-making, healing, and freedom without
violence. Critical and constructive in their analysis, Poling and
Kim present a promising intercultural and interreligious
perspective for Christian pastoral theology through the particular
lens of Korean Christianity."
--Wonhee Anne Joh, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology,
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
"We have learned that how to conduct one’s cultural experiences,
not as a footnote, but as a main body of shaping one’s pastoral
theology, has been no less significant to us than how to conduct
universal, psychological inquiry. I do believe Korean Resources
for Pastoral Theology might be a timely, great asset to the
broader, main body of building pastoral theology."
--Soo-Young Kwon, Professor of Pastoral Theology, United Graduate
School of Theology
Product Details
- Title : Korean Resources for Pastoral Theology: Dance of Han, Jeong, and Salim
- Authors:
- Poling, James Newton
- Kim, HeeSun
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Publication Date: 2012
- ISBN: 9781630870317
James Newton Poling is a retired Presbyterian minister and
Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care, and Counseling at
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. He
is author of Rethinking Faith: A Constructive Practical Theology
(2011).
HeeSun Kim is a Presbyterian minister and PhD candidate in pastoral
care and counseling, with a feminist theology minor, at
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Kim has been a pastor in
Korea and in the United States.