Hospital Ministry: The Role of the Chaplain Today
Overview
This helpful handbook explores the various roles chaplains fill, and the tasks they perform in the hospital setting. It examines procedural questions, ethics, and ministering in multicultural contexts suffused by grief, anxiety, and loss. This book includes a forward by ethicist and life-long minister Martin E. Marty.
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- Explains the chaplain’s tasks in a hospital setting
- Provides practical tools for counseling
- Examines how to minister to people suffering from grief and anxiety
Top Highlights
“Yet, all the chaplain can do, as God’s emissary, is to bring a companionship to the sufferer.” (Page 26)
“Hospital chaplains care for others. Who cares for hospital chaplains” (Page vii)
“The Cardiac Patient,1 Dr. George Patterson, a hospital chaplain” (Page 130)
“I would define that basic, fundamental role of pastoral care as the attempt to help others, through words, acts, and relationships, to experience as fully as possible the reality of God’s presence and love in their lives.” (Page 46)
“The hospital chaplain walks between two worlds: religion and medicine.” (Page 12)
Admirably captures both the experiential and conceptual dimensions of the work of the hospital chaplain. As such, this book serves equally well as an introduction to pastoral care for medical personnel, patients, and clergy, and as an important addition to the professional literature of the pastoral care field.
—Journal of the American Medical Association
A timely, intelligent, and highly readable book.
—The Christian Century
Chaplaincy as proposed and practiced by Holst et al is prophetic and contributes to rediscovering the interrelationship between faith, attitude, and healing.
—Journal of Pastoral Care
- Title: Hospital Ministry: The Role of the Chaplain Today
- Author: Lawrence E. Holst
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2006
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Church work with the sick; Chaplains, hospital; Hospital departments; Religion and medicine; Pastoral care
- ISBNs: 9781597528146, 1597528145
- Resource ID: LLS:HSPTLMNSTRYCTDY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:37:19Z
