Tending Soul, Mind, and Body: The Art and Science of Spiritual Formation (Center for Pastor Theologians Series)
Overview
Throughout his ministry, Jesus consistently demonstrated his concern and love for the whole person: soul, mind, and body.
That concern is carried forward today by pastors and church leaders, who are called to care for people in the midst of individual circumstances as well as seismic cultural shifts. How might that calling be informed by recent developments in psychology? How should the church attend to matters of mental health? How might psychology and counseling aid us in our spiritual formation?
Based on the 2018 Center for Pastor Theologians conference, this volume brings together reflections by pastors, theologians, and psychologists who explore the relationships among three fields of study—theological anthropology, spiritual formation, and modern psychology. The result is a vibrant whole-person theology that can aid the church today in its centuries-old call to care for the soul, mind, and body.
- Addresses pastoral concerns of mental health, counseling, and spiritual formation
- Contains contributions from pastors, theologians, and psychologists
- Aids church leaders in understanding current shifts in psychology
Part I: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Reflections
- Socialization and the Sanctuary: The Arrangement of 1 Corinthians
- Beyond Imitation: The Image of God as a Vision for Spiritual Formation
- The Holy Spirit and Positive Psychology in Spiritual Formation
- That’s the spirit! Or, what exactly does spiritual formation form?
- Jonathan Edwards on Sanctification
- Spiritual Mis-Formation: Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Human Sin
- Drawing from the Well: Learning from African-American Christian Formation
Part II: Practical Wisdom
- The Integrated Pastor: Toward an Embodied and Embedded Spiritual Formation
- Practice Resurrection, Live Like Jesus
- Friendship: The Lost Spiritual Discipline
- Shepherding Survivors of Sexual Abuse
- Neuropharmacoformation: Christian Formation in an Age of Stupefaction
- Spiritual Formation as if Wisdom Mattered
- Daniel J. Brendsel
- Marc Cortez
- Siang-Yang Tan
- Kevin J. Vanhoozer
- Rachel Stahle
- Dr. Joel D. Lawrence
- Vincent Bacote
- Todd Wilson
- Cherith Fee Nordling
- Pamela Baker Powell
- Andrew J. Schmutzer
- William M. Struthers
- Jamin Goggin
- Title: Tending Soul, Mind, and Body: The Art and Science of Spiritual Formation
- Editors: Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd Wilson
- Series: Center for Pastor Theologians
- Publisher: IVP
- Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 225
- Resource Type: Collected Essays
- Topic: Counseling
Gerald L. Hiestand (PhD, University of Reading) is the interim senior pastor at Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, Illinois, and the cofounder and director of the Center for Pastor Theologians. He is coauthor of The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision and coeditor of Becoming a Pastor Theologian; Beauty, Order, and Mystery; and Creation and Doxology.
Todd Wilson (PhD, University of Cambridge) is the president and cofounder of the Center for Pastor Theologians and the former senior pastor of Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, Illinois. He is the author of Mere Sexuality: Rediscovering the Christian Vision of Sexuality, Real Christian: Bearing the Marks of Authentic Faith, and Galatians: Gospel-Rooted Living, as well as coauthor of The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision and Pastors in the Classics, and coeditor of Becoming a Pastor Theologian and Beauty, Order, and Mystery.